Abstract Reasoning

From Remedies to Side-Effects

Abstract Reasoning is a methodology for visual analytics (VA) researchers and practitioners to deliberate many different possible causal relations. This page is for supporting the reasoning about the causal relations between remedies and side-effects, For reasoning about the causal relations between symptoms and causes and between causes and remedies. please visit the corresponding pages.

How to Use the Adjacency Matrix Below?

  • Consider a proposed solution and identify its corresponding abstract entity on the left.
  • Look across the row horizontally and see the orange symbols for likely side-effects.
  • Check to see whether these side-effects may occur in the process concerned. You may use the list of Concrete Entities as prompts.
  • Take the second scan of the row to consider the possible and rare side-effects.