Wrong direction

	Cogito ergo sum; Logic and rhetoric
	Key articles
	Logical fallacy; Syllogism; Argument;
	General logic
	Appeal to fiction; Appeal to the minority; Damning with faint praise; Relevance logic; Suppressed correlative; تقلیل به هیتلر;
	Bad logic
	Appeal to consequences; Argument from incredulity; Danth's Law; Flying carpet fallacy; One-way hash argument; Pathos gambit; v - t - e

Wrong direction is a logical fallacy that occurs when a cause is mistakenly considered an effect.

The fallacy is a fallacy of causation.

Alternate names

Chanticleer the rooster crows loudly enough to bring the sun up.
Cancer causes smoking.
The street lights turning on causes the Sun to set.
Winds are caused by waving trees.
Kids that play a lot of video games are the most violent. Clearly, video games make children more violent.

Not only is this an unrepresentative sample, but it's possible that violent children play video games because they are violent.

gollark: I plan to just run the checks every 5 minutes.

gollark: No.

gollark: Or within a few minutes of being sick, since querying DC to update *every single egg/hatchling* is sloooow.

gollark: Yes, and I plan to do as much.

gollark: Ah.

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