cause and effect?
Fri Jul 14 13:14:31 EDT 2017
So much before/after presented here that many are going to read as cause/effect; so many unanswered questions....Baby dies after lightning hits pregnant mom in Florida
A baby died this week after a pregnant mother was struck by lightning while walking outside in Florida during a storm in late June.
The mother was struck while carrying the child and gave birth shortly after being struck. The baby died this week. .... the mother went into cardiac arrest but is now recovering out of the hospital.
How long is "shortly"? An hour? A day? More?
Was the birth full term, or premature? How early premature?
What was the cause of the baby's death? There's a lot of possibilities other than lightning (like being premature).
Did the mother go into cardiac arrest when she was struck, or when she gave birth? (Or some other time?) Did the lightning cause the cardiac arrest?
This is one of the reasons people say there's "fake news": many people will read into this things the story doesn't actually say. It doesn't say the lightning caused the death, but most readers are going to infer that anyway. (That may be a valid conclusion, but there's not enough info here to know that.) Writers need to do a better job of not presenting incomplete material in ways that encourages people to draw unfounded conclusions. We know there's a lot of people out there who can't (or won't) be bothered to think for themselves.
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So much before/after presented here that many are going to read as cause/effect; so many unanswered questions....Baby dies after lightning hits pregnant mom in Florida
A baby died this week after a pregnant mother was struck by lightning while walking outside in Florida during a storm in late June.
The mother was struck while carrying the child and gave birth shortly after being struck. The baby died this week. .... the mother went into cardiac arrest but is now recovering out of the hospital.
How long is "shortly"? An hour? A day? More?
Was the birth full term, or premature? How early premature?
What was the cause of the baby's death? There's a lot of possibilities other than lightning (like being premature).
Did the mother go into cardiac arrest when she was struck, or when she gave birth? (Or some other time?) Did the lightning cause the cardiac arrest?
This is one of the reasons people say there's "fake news": many people will read into this things the story doesn't actually say. It doesn't say the lightning caused the death, but most readers are going to infer that anyway. (That may be a valid conclusion, but there's not enough info here to know that.) Writers need to do a better job of not presenting incomplete material in ways that encourages people to draw unfounded conclusions. We know there's a lot of people out there who can't (or won't) be bothered to think for themselves.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/904827.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]