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Faulty thinking happens all the time in technical support environments partly due to hectic and demanding business realities.

Simple*ology book pointed me to this website:

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/ 

which taxonomically organizes fallacies:

http://www.fallacyfiles.org/taxonomy.html

For example, False Cause. Technical examples might include false causes inferred from trace analysis, customer problem description that includes steps to reproduce the problem, etc. This also applies to debugging and importance of thinking skills has been emphasized in the following book:

Debugging by Thinking: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Surface-level of basic crash dump analysis is less influenced by false cause fallacies because it doesn’t have explicitly recorded sequence of events although some caution should be exercised during detailed analysis of thread waiting times and other historical information.   

Warning: when exercising critical thinking recursively we need to stop at the right time to avoid paralysis of analysis :-) 

- Dmitry Vostokov @ DumpAnalysis.org - 

           

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