{"id":6207,"date":"2023-12-29T10:20:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2023-12-29T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T16:23:36","slug":"causes-and-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2023\/12\/29\/causes-and-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Causes and Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

We can keep going with this, you know…<\/em><\/p>\n

1. Root Cause Analysis <\/h3>\n

When you launch rockets or fly airplanes full of passengers, you want things to go well. You don’t want mishaps<\/em>.<\/p>\n

There is an engineering discipline called root cause analysis<\/em><\/a> dedicated to providing objective techniques for trying to make sure bad days don’t happen. It is used by NASA and the FAA — think the Challenger explosion<\/a>, think near collisions between passenger jets on a runway<\/a>. But it’s actually a general tool for thinking about how to avoid problems.<\/p>\n

Today you will use root cause analysis<\/em> as a tool to understand the US Civil War. And you’ll also do some math.<\/p>\n

2. The Assignment<\/h3>\n

I hand out the assignment to the class. It includes what the students are to do and a rubric for how I will grade their work. Here are their instructions.<\/p>\n