What describes Step 3 of the Sequence of Events: Why Method?

• A. Work in reverse chronological order, asking 'Why?' until you can no longer ask 'Why?' or you reach a dead end.
• B. Work forward in time and identify results
• C. Identify the final outcome
• D. Conduct interviews with witnesses

Answer: (A)

Step 3 focuses on drilling down to underlying causes by working backward through the sequence of events and continually asking why. By starting from what happened and tracing the chain of events in reverse, you challenge each causal step and connect it to the conditions that allowed it, uncovering latent factors and root causes rather than just listing results. This approach ends when further why questions no longer reveal new factors or you reach a dead end, which ensures you’ve explored the critical causal chain. The other options describe different activities—moving forward to identify results, naming the final outcome, or simply interviewing witnesses—but they don’t systematically probe the causal chain in reverse to expose root causes like this step does.