# Analyzing the causes of a problem — prompt for ChatGPT

Build a chain of causes from verified observations and stop where speculation begins.

Canonical URL: https://boswidget.ru/en/analyzing-the-causes-of-a-problem-prompt-for-chatgpt/

Model: ChatGPT

Category: Analysis

Tags: causes, hypotheses, problem

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Analyzing the causes of a problem

## Prompt

Problem and observed consequences: {problem}. Verified facts: {evidence}. Build several possible causal chains rather than one inevitable explanation. For each link, give supporting evidence or label it a hypothesis and identify a check that could disprove it. Do not reduce the cause to human carelessness or force exactly five ‘whys’ when the data supports fewer. Distinguish a temporary mitigation from removing a verified cause. Finish with the next two checks.

## Template fields

- `{problem}` — Problem. Example input: What exactly differed from the expected result
- `{evidence}` — Facts. Example input: Observations, conditions and hypotheses already tested

## Launch

[Open ChatGPT in YesAI](https://yesai.su/en/chatgpt)