Scientific Definition
Assuming one cause where many are at play.
Plain-English Definition
Assuming one cause where many are at play.
Feynman Explanation
The strategy worked because of leadership. (Also: timing, luck, capital, market, competitors…)
Core Principle
Assuming one cause where many are at play.
Mechanisms
Assuming one cause where many are at play.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
The strategy worked because of leadership. (Also: timing, luck, capital, market, competitors…)
Examples
- Crediting a turnaround entirely to one new exec hire.
- Multi-factor outcomes attributed to one factor; lessons mis-learned.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
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Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
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If A then B; B happened; therefore A.
Reasoning backward from outcomes to motives.
Treating two things that move together as one causing the other.
With this, therefore because of this.
If A then B; not A; therefore not B.
Stacking so many tenuous links that the conclusion sounds clever.
B followed A, therefore A caused B.
A small step inevitably leads to extreme consequences.
Small step → catastrophic outcome, without the intermediate causal links.
Attacking the person rather than the argument.
A single story used as proof of a general claim.
It's true because authority says so.