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  2. Troubleshooting - Wikipedia

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    Troubleshooting is needed to identify the symptoms. Determining the most likely cause is a process of elimination—eliminating potential causes of a problem. Finally, troubleshooting requires confirmation that the solution restores the product or process to its working state.

  3. Social issue - Wikipedia

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    The failure to do so causes the creation of a social issue. There are a variety of methods people use to combat social issues. Some people vote for leaders in a democracy to advance their ideals. Outside the political process, people donate or share their time, money, energy, or other resources. This often takes the form of volunteering.

  4. Five whys - Wikipedia

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    The artificial depth of the fifth why is unlikely to correlate with the root cause. The five whys is based on a misguided reuse of a strategy to understand why new features should be added to products, not a root cause analysis. To avoid these issues, Card suggested instead using other root cause analysis tools such as fishbone or lovebug diagrams.

  5. Causality - Wikipedia

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    Causality is an influence by which one event, process, state, or object (a cause) contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an effect) where the cause is at least partly responsible for the effect, and the effect is at least partly dependent on the cause. [1]

  6. Causal analysis - Wikipedia

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    Causal analysis is the field of experimental design and statistics pertaining to establishing cause and effect. [1] Typically it involves establishing four elements: correlation, sequence in time (that is, causes must occur before their proposed effect), a plausible physical or information-theoretical mechanism for an observed effect to follow from a possible cause, and eliminating the ...

  7. Condition-of-England question - Wikipedia

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    The essay was aimed to draw the attention of the reading public to the spiritual price of social change, caused particularly by the frenetic industrialisation. In "Signs of the Times", Carlyle warned that the Industrial Revolution was turning people into mechanical automatons devoid of individuality and spirituality.

  8. Root cause analysis - Wikipedia

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    In science and engineering, root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems. [1] It is widely used in IT operations, manufacturing, telecommunications, industrial process control, accident analysis (e.g., in aviation, [2] rail transport, or nuclear plants), medical diagnosis, the healthcare industry (e.g., for epidemiology ...

  9. Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

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    In philosophical terminology, "cause" can refer to necessary, sufficient, or contributing causes. In examining correlation, "cause" is most often used to mean "one contributing cause" (but not necessarily the only contributing cause). Dinosaur illiteracy and extinction may be correlated, but that would not mean the variables had a causal ...