Neuroscience and Critical Thinking: Understand the Hidden Pathways of Your Thought Patterns- Improve Your Memory, Make Rational Decisions, Tune Down Emotional ... Expectations (The critical thinker Book 3)

by Albert Rutherford

It is easy to spot a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy because they will rarely have any sort of credible evidence to support them. There might be correlation present, but this is not the same as causation. To determine causation, all confounding factors have to be removed—environmental, social, circumstantial—and an experiment has to be carefully conducted. This is why the scientific method is so important;