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Help Needed..

I wish we went over cause and effect more. I kinda understand it and I kinda don't. There was a question in the midterm that asked "which one of these 5 deal with cause and effect?" I got very confused because they all pretty much dealt with cause and effect, well to me at least. They were all kinda vague on how the cause and effect happens so I really got confused to which answer is cause and effect because all the answers seem to be the right one.

The Cause and Effect section was just really irritating to me because it was confusing which situation is caused and effect. I think there has to be a different way of teaching this section rather then following whatever the book "Critical Thinking" describes and teaches it. Like a video describing it with live actions. That can help and also be very entertaining at the same time.

Well this is my last blog so I want to wish everyone good luck in the final. I have another blog that I post almost daily on so if you want to see what shenanigans I'm up to visit http://hellaiv-wally.blogspot.com and comment me! Also there's a video I'm making that me and Ro Ro made under a day so check out my blog for that also. Good luck everyone!!!

Me and Ro Ro at a HellaIV BBQ.

Almost Done.....

We'll it's almost the end of the class and I, seriously, learned a lot by taking this online class. This class has helped me learned new ways of arguing and thinking critical about certain situations I have came across through. It's like I put more thought into what I am talking, listening, or reading about. I'm always making sure that the premise supports the claim that is being stated, such that the claim makes any sense to me what so ever.

This class didn't just help me for academic reasons, but for also casual discussion's through-out my life. I would be hanging out with a bunch of my friends and then I would analyze what they are talking about. If their premise doesn't support their claim, then I would argue back and literally be like "dude wtf?"

I'm actually really glad I took this class, it was very interactive with the blogs and meeting up with group members you never met before, kinda like MTV's "The Real World". Thanks Professor Perez, I HELLA enjoyed this class.

I thought you guys would enjoy this so I put only the beginning of my Facilitation Project

You Gotta BELIEVE!!!!

Same as being vague, generalizations sometimes are a pet peeve to me. It's usually the fact that you are not being clear on what you are trying to explain. The book Critical Thinking by Carolyn Kernberger has a chapter on generalizations. The section of the chapter that caught my eye was Section 4. The Margin of error and Confidence Level. Off the bat, the first sentence explains how "It's never reasonable to believe exact statistical generalizations." It also gives an example on how town survey's are made, such that if a survey says 37% of the people in the town surveyed yes to wearing glasses, you can't be sure or confident enough that exactly 37% of the town wears glasses. There are some people that are asked to volunteer for survey's but some people, like me, just don't talk and walk away to them. So you can't be sure or correct among a survey like that. There could be a margin of error that we don't know of. This is important to understand because you should not ALWAYS believe what anyone tells you.

This is me being cocky and enjoying my car lol.

Whats is Needed

So I read some of Chapter 15 of Critical Thinking by Richard L. Epstein and from what I read, I thought part 8 was very important.

Part 8 was about the criteria for cause and effect. They have a table about what was the necessary criteria for cause and effect. These included:

- The cause is true
- The effect is true
- The cause precedes the effect
- Impossible for cause to be true and effect to be false
- The Cause makes a difference
- There isn't a common cause

Without knowing the criteria, then there may be a case where the issua of cause and effect wouldn't exist.

For example, a car hits my car that is parked. He goes to the police and insurance company and blames me for the accident. The thing with this that it doesn't meet all the necessary criteria for cause and effect. What is missing is that the cause is false.

Someone at school had an iPad today and I asked to try it out. This was actually really awesome. Not gonna lie, I think I want one.

Confusion Just Became Simple

This makes me wish we had access to this site before midterms hahahah.

The site "Mission: Critical" that Professor Perez refereed to us was very useful. It helped me understand certain things clear and understanding. The examples are very simple as well. They aren't over the top in complications, but rather they are simple to topics that people know commonly.

The Main Menu is awesome. It gives the main topic of each section and a link that leads to the section. Each section comes with examples, definitions, and my favorite, EXERCISES!

These exercises are amazing. I really wish we had this advantage before test or quiz's. They give a question which is multiple choice then it tells you if you were right or wrong. Whats the best part it also explains why, which is the reason I love it. This will definitely be useful for a study piece before the final. Thanks Professor Perez!

My friend took this picture of my car last week. It is now the default on my facebook lol.

Stuff Happens (Noticed that I changed the word to stuff.)

The topic of this blog post is about how cause and effect works. In the link Professor Perez gave us has seem very different from what I normally do in this class. But different doesn't mean bad, I actually enjoy doing this type of thing.

The topic was how cause and effect works in casual arguments. The example given was about how an accident was occurred during traffic. A truck was parked illegally on the bike lane where a bicycle had to swerve around the truck, where a car behind the bicycle had to suddenly stop, and finally the car behind the car that stopped hit the car that stopped.

The thing that caused a chain of everyone to do something different was the illegally parked truck in the bicycle lane. That caused everyone to do something different and effected the last two cars that got into the accident. So overall the truck is at fault.

I was at the game Tuesday, ended up we kicked hella ass.