Question

Dinesh notices that many people with gym memberships are overweight. he concludes that gym memberships make people gain weight. what is the error in dinesh's thinking?

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

Dinesh has the causation backward or the backwards causation.


Backwards causation - sometimes called as retro-causation. Concept of cause and effect where the effect precedes its cause in time. It is also defined as a future event being the cause of the past event.