It historically comprises two parts: actual causation, and proximate causation.
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In Giannecchini's case, and in the others, legal teams have to show general causation and specific causation.
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This correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation, and overall, there are not yet enough economic success stories about eco-friendly companies to prove causation.
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For one, correlation is not causation, and there's always a chance that a study like this, no matter the statistical checks, overstates causation.
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"Increased risk" doesn't mean causation by itself, but may eventually lead to a finding of causation when additional factors are taken into consideration.
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They make spurious arguments, such as correlation doesn't prove causation — which is true as a general statement, but the supporting evidence here so clearly proves causation.
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Although epidemiological studies show a robust association between PM 2.5 (microscopic particulate matter) and mortality risk, robust association is not causation, and causation deserves to be carefully examined.
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And it gets back to what you said about causation: how much more difficult the causation issue is, in terms of linking the damages directly to their activity.
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Review looked at correlation, not causation Studies included in the new review looked for correlation, not causation, meaning that researchers couldn't prove that e-cigarettes directly caused increases in cannabis use.
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The direction of causation is also the direction of explanation.
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However, she agreed that there is no evidence of causation.
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But as the old adage goes, correlation is not causation.
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Causation imposes chronological ordering: An effect can't precede its cause.
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"Existence of a report does not establish causation," she said.
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In other words, the study suggests correlation but not causation.
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But here's a perfect example of correlation not equaling causation.
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It is also important not to confuse correlation with causation.
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Also, of course, correlation is not the same as causation.
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Other experts said the study fell short of proving causation.
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Mr Bullard has the regime right, but the causation wrong.
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As the statistical adage goes, correlation does not imply causation.
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At the very least, the lines of causation are unclear.
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Of course, this type of study does not establish causation.
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"Correlation doesn't equal causation, but I'm just saying ..." Hart wrote.
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They're terribly confounded, and can show only associations, not causation.
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"This was stated as an association, not causation," she said.
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All three will be split into causation and liability phases.
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But these studies did not, and could not, prove causation.
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The main issue here is that we're conflating correlation with causation.
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All three cases will be split into causation and liability phases.
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But causation almost certainly runs in the other direction as well.
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But CNN reports that many chlorpyrifos studies demonstrate correlation, not causation.
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The study authors warned readers not to confuse association with causation.
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"Correlation plus correlation plus correlation does not equal causation," Sullivan said.
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Showing causation and blame was much more concrete with cigarette companies.
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Yes, but: This is evidence of correlation, but not necessarily causation.
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It is premature to speculate on causation or any other issues.
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The causation here is likely similar to an increase in unemployment.
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"Our study, being field work, could not establish causation," they wrote.
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"What you have to separate is correlation from causation," said Bilello.
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Secondly, it is well known that correlation does not equal causation.
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Is there a distinct causation between research efforts and mortality decreases?
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While correlation is not causation, Lott's correlative claim is unmistakably false.
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A big caveat to the study: It can't definitely prove causation.
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"It can never prove causation in the real world," he said.
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So by not teaching causation, we disempower people from doing anything.
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The subject of causation has preoccupied philosophers at least since Aristotle.
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"The study was not set up to establish causation," Chang said.
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Similarly, distinguishing causation from correlation in social policy is an inexact science.
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So overall, the data alone weren't enough to provide a direct causation.
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This may, of course, be correlation rather than causation, but still—and
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There can be strong correlation, but this does not necessarily indicate causation.
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There are several conjectures over the causation of Puerto Rico's unsustainable indebtedness.
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All three bellwether cases will be split into causation and liability phases.
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"We're very confident that there's a relationship" But correlation is not causation.
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However, Sevi explains that it's not an instance of causation, just correlation.
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It is important to note here that correlation and causation are different.
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The political shift she observes actually happened, but causation is less certain.
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The results of observational studies are correlative, but can't necessarily show causation.
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But with methane, the chain of causation is much shorter and simpler.
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Another thing — I hate even saying this — but correlation is not causation.
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As doctors and scientists, we look deeper: Correlation does not equal causation.
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Social science is usually messy, with correlation and causation difficult to separate.
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Of course, as economists are fond of saying, correlation is not causation.
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Without a randomized, controlled experiment, we cannot determine if there is causation.
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Federal courts have taken varying positions on causation standards in cyberbreach cases.
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When we're talking about statistics, are we talking about correlation or causation?
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One is that this study design can only show correlation, not causation.
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The strongest criticism is that the study shows correlation but not causation.
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Violent individuals may self-medicate with cannabis, but correlation is not causation.
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" Ms. Yellen's parting comment: "Let me emphasize that correlation is not causation.
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One caveat to much of the research: correlation is not always causation.
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This study is observational, so it can only show correlation rather than causation.
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"These studies can only suggest an association and cannot establish causation," she said.
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"The most difficult part [of these cases] will be proving causation," Burger said.
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However, "the problem with the study is correlation is not causation," he added.
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Another hurdle is the legal element known as "specific causation," according to Engstrom.
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But, like almost all studies of breakfast, this is an association, not causation.
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However, additional studies specifically suited to answer the question of causation are needed.
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The second rung of the ladder of causation moves from seeing to doing.
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Correlation is not causation, but can anyone believe that those relationships are spurious?
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Now, you may be yelling at your screen: correlation does not equal causation!
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They practically shout that the correlations they find are not evidence of causation.
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"This is as close to causation as you can get," Mr. Long said.
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"With this paper, we're narrowing in on causation," Darroch said in a statement.
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Of course, correlation does not imply causation (even if they often occur together).
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The relationship between shade and sugar content is a matter of correlation, not causation.
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Correlation is not causation, however: it could be that unhappy people seek refuge online.
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Although this is correlation, not causation, to an investor that distinction should not matter.
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But the researchers didn't find causation, just that a link exists between the two.
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And it's hard with all of those factors to understand or ever prove causation.
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But to draw a conclusion from that may be to interpret correlation as causation.
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Another possible defense is in the causation: What exactly did bring about Prince's death?
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Even if there is evidence, we should remember that correlation does not equal causation.
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They left no corpses behind, or evidence of clear causation: The bees simply vanished.
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Climate action is being blocked more by pessimism about innovation than skepticism about causation.
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But knowing there's a link only takes you so far; it doesn't prove causation.
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There is a big caveat to the research: These studies show correlation, not causation.
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"He breaks that chain of self-causation by exiting the vehicle," Judge Moniz said.
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Whether the "Trump effect" is fake news, correlation, or causation, remains to be seen.
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"Correlations, yes, we see them, but causation is difficult to pin down," she said.
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Not only is this dose response informative but it also hints at possible causation.
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It's important to note, however, that all these studies show an association, rather than causation.
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"Loss causation" is the link between the alleged fraud and a drop in share price.
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Correlation is not causation, but FBI data show a recent uptick in reported hate crimes.
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When a press release confused correlation with causation, 81 percent of related news articles would.
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The student debt plan and the polling shift is correlated, but causation can't be proven.
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The issues being adjudicated were the allegations of "breach of duty" and "causation of injury".
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It's an eye-opening finding, but a classic case where correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation.
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"I think it was too premature to claim that there was a causation," he says.
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These are fundamentally limited in that they can only show associations and cannot establish causation.
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There's a correlation between heavy drinking and unemployment rates, but the causation isn't explained, i.e.
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The authors acknowledge that this was not a randomized trial and does not prove causation.
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But when accounting for the 14 risk factors, researchers found no statistically significant causation rate.
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The study, in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, is observational, and does not prove causation.
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More research is needed to determine whether that relationship is causal or reflects reverse causation.
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"This mistakes correlation for causation, and it is deeply problematic," a company blog post said.
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That book is one of the most massive correlation-causation errors I can possibly imagine.
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No observational study can establish causation, and genetic or environmental factors could explain the association.
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But most studies of digital technology and mental health are correlational and can't prove causation.
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It's also reasonable to be concerned that when connections are found, correlations are not causation.
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Correlation does not mean causation, but the relationship between salary and suicide merits more research.
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It's a bit of a bold thing to do to talk about the mathematics of causation.
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Hoel taught himself information theory and plunged into the philosophical debates around consciousness, reductionism and causation.
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To draw a firm conclusion, however, would take a clearer understanding of the direction of causation.
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Because so many things are not controlled, observational studies can never show causation -- only an association.
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Finally, this study was purely correlative—and we all know that correlation does not imply causation.
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I think a very strong causation is that many of these tools are good 'in concept.
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Hill is quick to clarify the oft-repeated adage that correlation doesn't necessarily imply direct causation.
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" He added that although it did not show causation, the link with greater satisfaction sounded "feasible.
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But that does not mean we should not look closely at the correlation for any causation.
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Each of these locations hints at a certain type of and causation for your skin problems.
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People who sue Equifax generally will also be required to prove what's legally known as causation.
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The study had some limitations, including that the findings were associations and not evidence of causation.
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But other experts warn against claiming causation from such correlations and say more research is needed.
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It is a debate about causation and study design that frankly won't matter to most people.
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A key component of academic economics is ruling out the possibility of mistaking correlation for causation.
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It's reasonable to wonder about the connection, but it's also reasonable to be skeptical about causation.
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Again, the causation is unclear—workers in richer nations may feel they can take more time off.
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But we should be reading a stat like this as a probable example of correlation, not causation.
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"While the correlation is clear, the causation is not," says Peter Pomeranzev, an expert on Russia's disinformation.
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"I don't think the current study provides any clear cut evidence of causation," DiBaise added by email.
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The correlation — not causation — between sick and twisted words and subsequent deadly action should not go unnoticed.
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But he noted that while studies of this sort can show associations, they can't show direct causation.
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But the researchers couldn't prove causation; maybe both debt and poor health are just symptoms of poverty.
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Decoding these market signals is no easy task because it is difficult to disentangle correlation from causation.
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This also isn't a randomized controlled trial, and we can certainly argue that it doesn't prove causation.
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The predictors are based on correlation, not causation, and on the assumption that history will repeat itself.
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Potentially more problematic, unconscionable numbers of treatment studies contain the fatal flaw of confusing correlation with causation.
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"I'll always be cautious about causation and correlation," said Cillian McGrattan, a politics professor at Ulster University.
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But when the onset of a chronic health condition is delayed, causation can be hard to prove.
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Despite a pervasive belief that it's because of technology, there's no conclusive evidence to suggest causation yet.
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That's all true, but it can also introduce confusion because causation can move in the other direction.
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One could charitably describe it as a disagreement over whether you should characterize the "cause" of an important event in terms of the deepest or most superficial causal elements — in which case, I would recommend Laurie Paul's Causation: A User's Guide as essential reading on the metaphysics of causation.
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Plaintiffs are seeking to overturn a district-court ruling that excluded their key expert witness on general causation.
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"This is a retrospective study, so we cannot determine causation" between marijuana and weakening heart muscles, he concluded.
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By virtue of the plan you will almost surely get a good pick, but correlation and causation, etc.
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This could be correlation as opposed to causation, but of course Project: Time Off has a different opinion.
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BR: What do you say to the people who say this data just show correlation rather than causation?
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Repeat after me: this is correlation, not causation, so it's not like swearing more makes you more honest.
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His conclusions on federal preemption and causation, in particular, echo defense arguments in dismissal filings across the country.
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Cohen agrees that the research is only showing correlation, not causation, and the paper acknowledges that as well.
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I know correlation isn&apost causation, but maybe his sex life has made us all much better off.
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Yet a recent ruling in California against lead paint companies suggests the law's view on causation is evolving.
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It's also a correlation that has been seen, not direct causation, as patients were not directly followed up.
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The causation case is there, but is tougher to demonstrate than—as Atli subtly mentions—the correlation one.
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She said the studies should be viewed with a degree of skepticism because they gauged correlation, not causation.
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Conventional poll questions asking voters why they like a certain candidate suffer from massive problems of reverse causation.
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Correlation is not causation, but since Americans aren't dramatically crazier than other nationalities, what other explanation is there?
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That means they can't tell us about causation, and there are still many ways they could be biased.
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The court rejected Google's main argument that UK and EU law require "proof of causation and consequential damage".
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Correlation isn't causation, but Mississippi has made a huge investment in helping teachers learn the science behind reading.
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To be clear, I am not claiming causation, that Trump won because he was better at social media.
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Yes, but: It's hard to confirm a direct line of causation between the increased donations and Trump's election.
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But she noted that analyzing data sets and teasing out causation from correlation is slow and tricky work.
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Another complication, as with just about any social science study, is that correlation does not always mean causation.
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Judge Sharp dismissed shareholders' amended complaint in 2016, finding (among other things) that investors hadn't adequately alleged loss causation.
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Correlation is not causation, but it would be foolish to separate the atmosphere on Wednesday night from the outcome.
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But we have not seen evidence that there's causation necessarily for flavors being a lead-in for underage consumers.
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Perhaps the global rise of authoritarians and big tech platforms are merely correlated, and no causation can be proved.
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Just as science has debunked the vaccine causation hypothesis, it also casts strong doubt that any autism "epidemic" exists.
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"Those health effects can include aggravation or causation of asthma, cardiovascular and respiratory disease, hospitalizations and death," he added.
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Yet, you routinely implied causation while only demonstrating correlation, and opted for broad generalisations where fine distinctions are required.
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As one reads the tea leaves, it's worth remembering that correlation ≠ causation when it comes to big price moves.
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Gun rights proponents scoff at such research, asserting that while there may be a correlation, it doesn't mean causation.
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Are you thinking, OK, but correlation is not causation, so shut your stupid mouth and let me eat meat?
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"Although this study does not establish causation due to the scientific methodology, this association should be recognized," Bresler said.
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The White House's claim about correlation and causation also ignores one very basic thing about birth control: It works!
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But the data seems to suggest that this may not just be a correlation, but a matter of causation.
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Actual causation sounds pretty straightforward: It means that "but for" the defendant's act, the event would not have occurred.
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Caveat: Drope says there's a fundamental problem with many studies — several (for either side) show association rather than causation.
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Indeed, Gorsuch goes even further than that, arguing that all plaintiffs typically must "establish causation" in order to prevail.
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Of course, correlation does not prove causation; it is certainly possible that better hospitals choose physicians as their leaders.
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Of course, correlation does not prove causation, but the study makes a case for the benefits of civic engagement.
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The question about these findings is the old correlation-causation question: Does religious faith lead to these healthy behaviors?
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The prevalence of obesity has increased in parallel with production of diet sodas (but this is association, not causation).
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This research is able to reliably disentangle causation and correlation because a lottery effectively provides a randomized control trial.
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In "Conflict in the Classroom," a sketch recently staged at Skidmore College, a statistics "class" discusses correlation and causation.
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It is a bit harder to uncover causation for the Sabres' miseries, or the tribulations of the old Braves.
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"There isn't a true causation of 'I saw this in porn, and therefore I'm going to do it,' " she added.
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Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.
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"If you brought 26 practicing scientists into a room and asked what causation was, they would all disagree," DeDeo said.
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"Without proof of causation, which is an essential element of GSK's action, a finding of inducement cannot stand," Stark wrote.
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These "randomized control trials," similar to the ones used to develop new drugs, are a way of pinning down causation.
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Dr Howe has not shown what is behind the effect, which may merely be one of correlation, rather than causation.
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While that's true, that doesn't mean that it happened because of Obamacare — correlation, as economists say, does not equal causation.
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Establishing causation is by far the most urgent question facing the global health community in relation to the Zika outbreak.
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Why it matters: Of course, correlation doesn't equal causation, but typically trends like this at least spark smart, nuanced research.
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Caveat: 2017 is expected to be a strong year for tech IPOs, but it's correlation to Snap rather than causation.
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I'm a coach with Bill of our foundation, and he will not accept data that is correlation and not causation.
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Perhaps I'm too interested in causation — I'm a newsman, keep in mind — but isn't that what we want to know?
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The causation could go in other directions, however: Wage growth, or the lack of it, might affect innovation and productivity.
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The study is the latest to show a link between marijuana and psychosis, though it did not definitively show causation.
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He split the Hardeman case into two phases: one to decide causation, the other to determine Bayer's potential liability and damages.
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"We have a dead 15-year-old with no causation on his part or anybody of the vehicle," the attorney said.
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Second, "the problem was that even though you find racial resentment matters, you couldn't dismiss the reverse causation argument," Nteta says.
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It's hard not to be skeptical: Maybe it's the placebo effect or a fluke, correlation doesn't imply causation, and so on.
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Association, not causation The researchers stress that the findings are purely observational, as they used readily available data about certain populations.
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This analysis shows correlation, not causation, but the authors note that the mental health consequences of these policies are worth considering.
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"He continued: "With manslaughter, you have to prove a direct cause … It's much harder to prove that causation with a suicide.
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A significant limitation of medical surveillance systems is that their findings rely on correlations that may not be indicative of causation.
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But, on the other hand, some ecologists are skeptical of this explanation and point out that correlation does not imply causation.
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While we know that correlation doesn't necessarily equal causation, it's possible that this new data leaves some questions to be unpacked.
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" Or, the researchers suggested, the observational studies simply showed reverse causation — "that is, patients successfully tapered opioids because pain severity decreased.
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Correlation isn't necessarily causation here, as I've experienced similar slowdowns during non-pandemic times, but I thought it was worth noting.
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Studies may never prove what causes cancer There's an important consideration in interpreting the results: The study analyzes association, not causation.
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Whenever we look at the question of causation in history, you can never isolate one variable and make grand or definitive conclusions.
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Stress has scientists scratching their heads Still, "the associations noted in this study, while statistically significant, do not prove causation," Tawakol said.
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Not to get too Freakonomics up in here, but I can't help but think some of it is correlation, not just causation.
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Others say the addiction metaphor is unnecessarily alarmist and that the studies linking depression and smartphone usage only show correlation, not causation.
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And like all nutrition science, this type of research can only tell us about correlations and not causation (more on that below).
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It is a digital updating of Glenn Beck's famous blackboard, whose eraser was especially effective on the distinction between correlation and causation.
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But such causation in the stock market is impossible to prove or disprove, unlike, say, the link between smoking and lung cancer.
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For instance, they made sure the claims in the press release emphasized that the study was correlational and could not imply causation.
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And although the data points to a correlation between El Niño and melty ice in West Antarctica, that doesn't necessarily imply causation.
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There's also been discussion of how direct listings enabled both Spotify and Slack to (mostly) eliminate lockups, but that's correlation without causation.
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"But this new research, pointing to molecular causation, further helps put PMDD on the same footing as other medical diseases," says Goldman.
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"These type of studies also cannot account for all the (factors), and therefore they cannot, and should not, conclude causation," Heneghan said.
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A study is due to be published establishing correlation in time and place between zika and birth defects, but not yet causation.
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The judge cited "insufficiency of the evidence as to the causation as to both defendants," Johnson & Johnson and its consumer products subsidiary.
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Though it might be tempting to make the connection to the flu shot when you're in bed sneezing, correlation is not causation.
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Luckily, some recently begun studies will be poised to weigh in on causation — but we'll have to wait years for the results.
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That may be correlation rather than causation, but at the least it suggests that viewers of Fox News don't actually learn much.
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Many mistake correlation for causation; just because some people have a different microbiome doesn't mean that microbes are responsible for other differences.
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Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a particularly good method for gauging impact, since they make it easier to distinguish causation from correlation.
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One of the other reasons this issue is so thorny is that it's very difficult to determine definitive causation in cancer cases.
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While I cannot prove causation, the timing correlates with October 133, the date by which schools receive per-student funding for the year.
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"It's hard to know exactly that you can account for all of these other contributors" when determining causation of the condition, she said.
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Correlation does not necessarily imply causation, and the study didn't point to any chemicals or compounds in coffee that explain these health effects.
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All that said, this new study linking an active sex life with better job performance is a classic situation of correlation-not-causation.
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"You have to look at causation," said Warren Cormier, CEO of Boston Research Technologies and co-founder of the RAND Behavioral Finance Forum.
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However, a growing number of studies show that most of the causation goes from screen use to unhappiness, not the other way around.
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" Goin-Kochel, who was not involved in the new study, emphasized that it found only an association, which "does not equate to causation.
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But the arrow of causation still isn't clear, says David Hill, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Communications and Media.
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But to connect the two and think the latter begets the former without taking into account any other factors asserts causation with correlation.
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"Few legal principles are better established than the rule requiring a plaintiff to establish causation," Gorsuch wrote in the opinion's very first sentence.
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"I recognize, however, that our precedent now establishes this form of causation as a 'default rul[e]' in the present context," she wrote.
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The 2016 election, which brought in a vice president with a record of opposing gay rights, is at least correlation, if not causation.
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But coincidence isn't causation, and there have been good scientific reasons to doubt that the volcanic activity could have caused the climate change.
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That's why long-term studies demonstrate an association, not necessarily causation, between a physically active lifestyle and better cognitive performance later in life.
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"We saw increased rates of a number of allergic diseases in which it's hard to make an argument of reverse causation," he said.
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They can only indicate association, not causation, and they are especially susceptible to "recall bias," when people remember things differently based on outcomes.
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But our examination of research in this field suggests this kind of thinking is based on a classic misunderstanding: confusing correlation for causation.
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Though the events seem more a matter of coincidence than causation, markets greeted the new central bank chief with a stomach-churning slide.
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"I think the general message always should be that association studies do not actually imply causation," he said of linking climate change and diabetes.
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Indeed, one of the observation sites did measure a descending cloud during the period after the dust clouds arrived, though correlation is not causation.
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And what these clearly show is that there's no causation between talc, baby powder and ovarian cancer or any type of asbestos-related disease.
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But Stoddard was very careful to point out the limitations of this study, the main one being the ubiquitous correlation does not imply causation.
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I'll let NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly field that one: Is the NHL really formulating concussion policies over basic "correlation doesn't equal causation" fallacies?
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New data shows that Snapchat's claims could be true, though the situation opens up a traditionally thorny issue for marketers around causation and correlation.
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He led a study of how workplace wellness correlates to public company stock performance, and while correlation is not causation, the results were encouraging.
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And yes, we do know that the data's conclusions may only show correlation rather than causation, but let's have some fun with it anyway.
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She said that the new research observes a "highly significant" link between Alzheimer's and the oral infection and that the mouse study indicates causation.
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But the courts have been ready to read the probabilities, and hold companies liable for damages when the likelihood of causation is high enough.
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Check out the chart above: 60% — a record in their joint polling — see some level of human influence, including 34% who see direct causation.
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For the past two decades, scientists have been exploring the genetics of schizophrenia, autism and other brain disorders, looking for a path toward causation.
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As a last word, though, I did see some liberals Thursday afternoon doing the "correlation isn't causation" routine on this finding of the study.
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Mr. Maor cautioned that his study only showed a correlation, not causation, between when nonavian dinosaurs went extinct and when mammals became daytime creatures.
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That led him to study disease causation — asking, for example, how those transmitted genes turn a harmless microbe into one that gives people diarrhea.
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" Three ascending rungs of what he calls the "ladder of causation" serve as the central metaphor driving the narrative of "The Book of Why.
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These kinds of correlations don't mean causation and the company is still working to better quantify the benefits of adopting its workplace wellness protocols.
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To show causation, scientists rely on randomized experiments, during which they assign people to, for instance, exercise or not and then monitor the outcomes.
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Establishing causation through statistical analysis is notoriously difficult, and in this case some of the precise causal mechanisms being posited are a little unclear.
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"Regardless of the route of causation, this study presents one more important reason why we must clean up the air in our cities," he said.
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Other experts, like Andrew Przybylski, a psychologist at the Oxford Internet Institute, caution that Twenge's data shows correlation between depression and social media, not causation.
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But again, since this was an observational study and not an experimental study, Li could not establish causation between the low-level radiation and miscarriages.
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So we are left with observational epidemiology studies, which can be messy to conduct and are by definition reactive and unable to fully prove causation.
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Traditionally the dollar had a slight negative correlation with oil, mostly because the dominant causation goes from dollar weakness to rising oil prices, he added.
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The research we have on the population-level impact of contraceptives is indeed observational, and observational studies can only describe correlations between phenomena, not causation.
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There is no need to prove that unfair practices (dumping or subsidies) exist or to meet rigorous standards of "injury" or "causation" in other laws.
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Based on their findings, the researchers said Zika and Guillain-Barre "are strongly associated," however, they said more study is needed to prove direct causation.
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" Deppe added: "While it's tempting to say the toxic male behavior we observe is a problem in gaming [and] esports, it's mistaking correlation with causation.
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"It's amazing how they are left out of the debate about causation, but also about solutions," Allen Frances, the Duke psychiatrist, said of the Sacklers.
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It is a cross-sectional study — a snapshot of these developing brains at one moment in time — and therefore by definition shows association, not causation.
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Every organization, whether governmental, academic, private or individual, has its own methodology for determining correlation or causation between a natural disaster and an individual death.
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Although the problems with observational studies have received much attention ("Association doesn't prove causation," as scientists say), clinical trials can suffer from equally important limitations.
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We won't know for sure, of course, if it's causation or correlation, or if a win or loss is even real (again, I'm in Florida).
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Have you ever fallen prey to any of the logical fallacies it describes — for example, confirmation bias, the perfectionist fallacy, or confusing correlation with causation?
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While it's difficult to separate out causation and correlation between LME stocks and outright price, the linkage looks harder when it comes to time-spreads.
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"This is an observational study that does not prove causation," said the lead author, Peter Nordstrom, a professor of geriatrics at Umea University in Sweden.
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Though it doesn't prove causation, it's a fact that the decreasingly effective estate tax of the past 50 years has accompanied an increasingly unequal society.
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As many have pointed out, both Clinton and Barack Obama were much more focused on causation theories (including discredited ones) in the 2008 Democratic primary.
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"I think it's very significant," George Ellis, a South African cosmologist who has also written about top-down causation in nature, said of Hoel's new paper.
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"Correlation isn't causation," said David Hyman, a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and scholar with the conservative American Enterprise Institute and Cato Institute.
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Correlation does not imply causation, meaning just because, for example, increased cheese consumption seems to correlate with declining moose numbers, doesn't mean one causes the other.
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While correlation does not equal causation, studies have shown that people who spend more time on social media are more likely to experience symptoms of depression.
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Depending on the law, prosecutors have to prove a certain level of causation between someone giving another person the drug and that drug causing an overdose.
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"More studies will be needed to work out if there is any causation in this relationship," said Cruickshank, who was not involved in the new research.
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Indeed, while the rise in the yen followed the BOJ's move to a negative interest rate policy, there are reasons to believe that correlation isn't causation.
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U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco during a case management conference on Wednesday said the testimony of plaintiffs' specific causation experts has credibility issues.
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As ever, correlation is not causation but the long-term results of the 'long-term' cohort were a heck of a lot better than the rest.
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So the researchers looked at a range of bone injuries as a way to assess the likelihood that reverse causation might be responsible for their injuries.
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While the direct social causation of mental health issues is fairly clear in the context of coronavirus, that logic does not necessarily apply to all cases.
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The plaintiff's lawyers "have clearly shifted their causation theory," PwC's lawyer, James Cusick, told the judge before Corzine began his third and final day of testimony.
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Airbnb officials said the report confused causation with correlation by blaming the company for higher rents that could have been raised by other factors, like rezoning.
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The study doesn't definitively conclude that the presence of opioids prescribed to family members directly caused the overdoses, since it only found a correlation, not causation.
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However, a review paper published in the Journal of Caffeine Research last year suggests that there is not enough evidence to determine causation or direction of effect.
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But London shows that correlation doesn't equal causation: a number of commuters told me that they hail a cab or Uber maybe once a month, if that.
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While researcher Jean Twenge has been quick to acknowledge that correlation does not equal causation, she does think these results should serve as a warning to parents.
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Essentially, while correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation, if two factors aren't even reliably linked to each other, it's pretty hard to argue that one causes the other.
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Henry emphasized that while his research finds a correlation between AMO and climate change, it can't attribute causation—in other words, something else could be causing both.
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Because of the doctors' role, the judge said, the chain of causation between the health plan plaintiffs and the defendants is too attenuated to justify RICO damages.
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Normally, we think of the causation as running the other way: Politics is often conceived of as the process of competing for the authority to determine policy.
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For one, these studies only establish correlation, not causation — so it's unclear if improved access to naloxone alone is to credit for the reduced number of deaths.
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Causation: Determining how specific occupations influence suicide is complex because both work and non-work factors affect a person's risk of self-inflicted death, the report noted.
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With a gasoline chemical, it seems as if there was a more clear causation: the companies did this, and, as a result, a very tangible thing happened.
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There still isn't conclusive proof that more football playing means more or worse cases of CTE—the science is still in the stage of identifying correlations, not causation.
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They can claim causation in their findings, that the parts of the brain they implicate have a crucial role in those powerful moments between an individual and god.
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I see you, "fart" searchers Whether or not that spike was solely caused by YouTube's outage isn't known; it might be a case where correlation doesn't equal causation.
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It would fund a scientific study to determine whether there was a ''probable link'' — a term that delicately avoided any declaration of causation — between PFOA and any diseases.
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Delvaux suggests this won't be much of a problem in the short-term as the current generation of robots simply aren't complex enough to make establishing causation difficult.
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However, while there may be a correlation between hormonal birth control with the prescription of antidepressants and perhaps a depression diagnosis, causation is hard to prove, she said.
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Dstillery is quick to add that correlation isn't causation and that all this data is totally anonymous, so we're not talking NSA-level, constitution-violating smartphone tracking here.
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The study estimates an association between legalization and teen use, not causation, meaning the study does not show conclusively that legalizing pot causes a decrease in teen use.
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Now that the case has made it to trial—after overcoming free speech claims made by the defense and bolstered by the ACLU—the verdict pivots on causation.
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Much of the research up to this point only establishes a correlation between drinking and cancer, but Connor suggests that the evidence is strong enough to suggest causation.
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The Times does mention the issue of association versus causation, but only in the last two paragraphs: How many articles do you read until the very last word?
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Correlation is not causation, but in the wake of Crimea's annexation, the number of Russians who believed that corruption was increasing plummeted to 30 percent, from 50 percent.
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At the margins, there may be some debates about "causation" for some of these deaths in Puerto Rico -- but not when the numbers are deep into the thousands.
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Physical activity seems to work in combination with good relationships, though there may be reverse causation here: Those who are less lonely may tend to maintain physical activity.
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"The most compelling argument, I think, is trying to get juries to focus on the notion that correlations or association is not the same as causation," Williams said.
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"I have previously explained that a strict but-for causation standard is ill suited to discrimination cases and inconsistent with tort principles," she writes, citing her Nassar dissent.
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Those who go on to become regular marijuana users often use other substances as well, including alcohol and cigarettes, making it more difficult for researchers to untangle causation.
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Causation is likely, though, because reverse causality doesn't make much sense — it's hard to see how higher malpractice rates would lead hospitals to pay less attention to safety.
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"The association is clear, but the causation is not," said Dr. Mary Pat Gallagher, a pediatric endocrinologist at NYU Langone Medical Center who was not involved in the study.
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Showing causation in yield improvement below 10 percent thresholds is hard to prove against a complex background of factors — and often requires multi-year field trials to build confidence.
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Correlation doesn't prove causation, but it's worth considering the possibility that the anti-Trump ads, which flooded the market in the campaign's final days, contributed to his underwhelming performance.
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Weinberg says it's also important to remember that just because there's a relationship doesn't mean there's causation: Dancing at a rock show doesn't necessarily make you a happier person.
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This might be a correlation-not-causation thing (meaning you might be more likely to sleep nude if you're already in a happy relationship), but hey, worth a shot.
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CVB Financial, held the announcement of a government investigation can be the foundation of a viable loss causation theory, if it's combined with a later admission by the defendant.
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On Wednesday, the report was criticized on the grounds that it may have unfairly linked correlation to causation, drawing more dramatic conclusions than can be supported by the evidence.
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Their findings don't show causation, so we can't say that dogs reduce your risk of death and heart disease, but pups can change their families' habits in big ways.
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As is often the case, even reputable researchers publishing in reputable journals run roughshod over the difference between correlation (two phenomena go together) and causation (one causes the other).
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Association is not causation, though, and the opposite might be the case: it might be easier for people without those health conditions to keep up with a running habit.
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The Zika virus has been linked to a life-threatening birth defect called microcephaly, though the causation has not yet been scientifically proven because the virus is so understudied.
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But, subjecting someone to liability without fault or causation – which do not exist in these cases – violates the core progressive legal philosophy of standing up for one's constitutional rights.
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The authors hypothesized that these outcomes might be due to the female sibling being exposed to the male's testosterone in utero, though this current study doesn't definitively prove causation.
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Of course, these studies just show correlation, not causation, so we can't yet say for sure if it's the meat or the fiber causing the risk or the reward.
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" Further, Mr. Bowman wrote in a blog post in 2013, "if any connection exists between unintended pregnancy and bad health consequences, it is based on mere correlation, not causation.
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The study, which admittedly could only draw a correlation and not prove causation, wasn't the first to suggest that lithium's health benefits weren't only real, but already having widespread effect.
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" The poet goes on to muse about causation but pauses on a sure-footed image of a "crown of leaves … sifted by wind … brightening into rust-red / at the tips.
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"We would also stress that the contraction in the Fed balance sheet is unprecedented and, although correlation is not causation, that such a contraction has historically been problematic," Garthwaite said.
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But I increasingly wonder whether we would benefit if tech companies assumed that some level of causation was real — and, assuming that it is, what they might do about it.
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Mishori said she does not believe there is any proof through "rigorously conducted, high-quality studies that there is a causation or even an association" between talc and ovarian cancer.
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Michael Wilson, a lawyer who has sued the military at least five times over medical negligence, said he thinks the families of the victims won't have a problem proving causation.
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Those causation arguments, which defendants have asserted not only to challenge standing but in subsequent dismissal and class certification motions, are only going to become more powerful as breaches proliferate.
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Moreover, as any statistician will tell you, there are two critically important factors when evaluating the meaning and relevance of statistics if they are to be actionable: trends and causation.
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"The association … does not provide proof (of causation), even when the results from our study corroborate findings from previous similar research," study coauthor Geert van der Heijden said by email.
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" The argument here is that humans are "strongly attracted to explanations of events in terms of agent action—particularly events that are not readily explained in terms of ordinary causation.
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"Ford does not even attempt to ground its strict causation standard in the original meaning of the Due Process Clause or in any historical tradition," the Bandemer opposition brief said.
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Although "correlation does not imply causation," EPA and CASAC have in recent years rationalized costly mandates with questionable inferences about whether small changes in exposure cause changes in health risks.
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The study controlled for family psychiatric history, maternal psychosis, substance use, socioeconomic status, neighborhood social characteristics and other factors, but it is an observational study that does not prove causation.
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The data were from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey, which included how much sleep drivers reported having in the 24 hours preceding a crash.
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As Seth Masket points out, they're slightly confused about the applications of "microtargeting," and they seem to conflate correlation (increasing polarization) with causation (the birth of big data and computing power).
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But much of the most alarming pieces about phones relies on anecdotes or surveys with unclear causation, like do depressed kids use social media, or does social media make kids depressed?
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"Although this study can't show causation, several other studies have shown that more social media use leads to unhappiness, but unhappiness does not lead to more social media use," Twenge said.
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The Yale survey doesn't connect those dots, and correlation doesn't mean causation, but it's tempting to think something shook a whole lot of people out of their complacency—at least momentarily.
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"Correlation is not causation, and this is definitely not a sign that people should get rid of their cats," said study co-author and University of Chicago associate professor Royce Lee.
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"We can't say that it's direct causation, but we certainly believe the attention and pressure makes a difference, and many of the award winners have told us that," Ms. Nossel said.
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While correlation does not always mean causation, these trends support the concept that increasing grazing on public lands is a reasonable and responsible way to reduce the likelihood of intense wildfires.
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The National Institutes of Health have launched a $300 million project that will track thousands of children from the age of 9 or 10 through adolescence, and might help clarify causation.
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According to Japan Today , some of the Japanese prefectures that are highest in natto consumption have also had the lowest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus—but correlation, causation, etc. etc.
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There's no direct causation there—that feels like I'm firing blanks in the dark, desperately trying to find something to blame—but the fact is that the quantity slowly started to increase.
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Young stressed that correlation is not the same as causation, so it's unclear whether the groups share the expressed genes because they're monogamous or if they're monogamous due to the shared genes.
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"A leading hypothesis in SIDS causation is that failure to arouse makes the infant more vulnerable to dying from SIDS," Moon, author of an editorial accompanying the current study, said by email.
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The researchers also tested for reverse causation, that is, they wanted to know whether parents chose to put toddlers with developmental problems in front of screens more than toddlers without developmental problems.
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BOGEY MUSIDLAKPresidentProportional Representation Society of AustraliaCanberra To say that the Norman conquest "sparked a long economic boom in England, which made the country comparatively rich", mistakes correlation for causation ("Brentry", December 24th).
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Since the World Health Organization proposed new diagnoses for "hazardous gaming" and "gaming disorder" last year, there's been an ongoing scientific debate about which way the causation for these issues really goes.
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Clemens points out that it's difficult to tease out causation here: "If you're likely to migrate, maybe you have some stress at home that is leading you to do that?" he said.
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It's also likely that it's just a "correlation doesn't equal causation" scenario, in that you can be gluten-free and have sex on the reg, but those two things aren't entirely connected.
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Some thought that the Internal Directives were to blame for the symptoms some of the Girlfriends had complained about, but others held that there were too many factors to draw a causation.
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"This study is small and not able to prove causation; however, there is growing evidence that periodontal disease may be associated with certain types of cancer, including GI cancer," Wactawski-Wende added.
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"Any scientist is both welcome and encouraged to submit a proposal to us that explores environmental causation of autism or any method that might improve autism," said Handley in a phone interview.
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The letter also says two medical experts were consulted regarding identification, causation, and aging of certain injuries to the alleged victim as depicted in relevant photos, and those experts provided written reports.
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But the findings are open to interpretation, as they are based on trends and can't prove causation, Vandoros added, nor do they imply an overall increase in depression for the entire country.
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Defenders of the clubs said the study conflated correlation with causation—it did not determine whether these unwanted encounters occurred in the clubs or elsewhere, or whether the perpetrators were club members.
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Berenson fills the absence of evidence—a cognitive nether zone in which arrows of causation can be made to point every which way—with heinous acts of violence committed by cannabis users.
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His work also gets at the correlation-or-causation conundrum in economic behavior: What consumer actions occur coincidentally after people see ads, and what actions are most likely caused by the ads?
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It's the classic correlation-versus-causation problem — you can use the data to suggest that an action and a result are related, but you can't draw a direct cause-and-effect relationship.
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The study had some limitations, including that an association in the data does not mean causation, and just because the women filled an ondansetron prescription does not mean they used the drug.
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For similar reasons, the plaintiff cities cannot establish causation when billions of intervening third parties around the world make the decision to drive to work and heat their homes with fossil fuels.
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This is not how you build a winning team—the Warriors are currently mistaking correlation for causation—but this is how you get rich people to like you and think you're smart.
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But correlation is not causation, and, as Professor Jackson convincingly shows, simplistic and expensive proposals to reduce inequality like a guaranteed minimum income are unlikely to make a meaningful dent in immobility.
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Amid all these gleaming fragments are meditations on the nature of historical time, the mysteries of human motivation, the endless riddle of causation and the heart-rending loss of once-possible alternatives.
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Autobiography, with its basically stable theory of causation, its firm checks upon reality and dream, its ordered sense of past, present, and future, was for him a necessary condition of continued survival.
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Drivers should also think twice before trying to blame their next fender bender on global warming – much of the association remains correlation rather than causation, although the body of evidence is mounting.
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Remember, simply because two sets of data have moved together in the past doesn't mean that there is causation between the two or that the pattern will continue unabated into the future.
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For example, problems presented in combat, less-discernable nuances informing certain decisions, determining causation and the analysis of a range of different interwoven variables – are arguably things best performed by the human mind.
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A shared world of basic perceptions and a shared sense of elemental causation—of what counts as plausible or farfetched—allows us to make ourselves understandable to each other even when we disagree.
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Close to a third of the teachers also reported conveying messages that are contradictory, emphasizing the scientific consensus on human causation and the idea that many scientists believe the changes have natural causes.
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Amanda Packel, co-director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford, cautioned that these findings can be overstated — a correlation between diversity and business performance, but that doesn't necessarily mean causation.
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Causation probably runs the other way: recently, cheap oil and a strong dollar has boosted real wages, holding down the need for cash-terms pay rises in spite of a tight labour-market.
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Others, like adding a note to the mental health correlation chart from Ganna's presentation (now a figure in the manuscript) indicating there was no implied causation, were taken under consideration, though ultimately ignored.
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This is as much a matter of correlation as causation, as there is a limited number of top programs with the resources and clout to compete for national titles in the first place.
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She points out, however, that this correlation tells us nothing about its causation—we have no idea to what extent higher testosterone levels lead to, or are the result of, non-monogamous behavior.
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But quantum reconstructions with an "informational" flavor speak about how information-carrying systems can affect one another, a framework of causation that hints at a link to the space-time picture of general relativity.
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The J.P. Morgan paper said there appears to be direct causation between Powell's remarks and stocks because the market had taken a discernible change in direction during the days when the Fed chief spoke.
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Correlation does not imply causation, but the tool uncovers an interesting pattern: Provinces where Mr. Xi served for many years have not seen as many top officials fall in corruption campaigns as neighboring provinces.
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The study's designers noted that they could only determine correlation, not causation, but it was enough to deepen the conversation around the show's potential impact, which had begun along with its debut in 2017.
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"If he had stolen the gun then I think there'd be a causation issue, but in fact he got the gun legally from a gun seller because he wasn't on the list," he said.
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"It's very difficult to go from association to causation," said Dr. Pauline Thomas, professor and director of Preventive Medicine Residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, who was not involved in the new study.
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Without implying causation between any course of events, it's true that a handful of the C-suite executives advising Trump on how to grow America's manufacturing sector have recently announced departures from their posts.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, Noll said, has set a tight standard of causation for civil RICO claims, so the class action plaintiffs would have to show the alleged conspiracy caused Yale to reject them.
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Reading the study, and holding it up to my own experience, I couldn't help but feel that further research would be needed to determine whether these results were a case of correlation or causation.
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Though it's hard to pinpoint causation, Carlisle's research shows that in the 12 months before Google's 2004 IPO, San Francisco's median real estate price in areas popular with tech workers increased by 12 percent.
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Yes, but: Correlation is not causation, Lisa Shalett, CIO of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, wrote in a Monday note to clients, arguing that yields are rising because of increased inflation expectations, not renewed growth.
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Philosophers from Descartes to Kant to Donald Davidson have noticed this inconsistency and have tried to come up with a theory of how humans could be both sources of meaning and subject to causation.
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Those two sentences make for a pretty good causation versus correlation debate: Working at Goldman doesn't automatically make you a great Wall Street columnist or there would be many more great Wall Street columnists.
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What I'm saying is for the first time there is a possibility of causation that goes along with this great number of correlative information in terms of the effects the sun has on living things.
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While progressives find Trump's promises to "drain the swamp" to be galling and hypocritical in light of his family's massive financial conflicts of interest, the real direction of causation likely goes in the other direction.
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She pointed out that although there is a plausible mechanism for how NSAID use would lead to a higher risk of miscarriage, a study like this can only show an association, it doesn't prove causation.
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While the study is "not definitive in proving causation," it links crime trends — 28503 violent crimes per 22019,000 citizens in 1990 compared to 362 per 100,000 in 2014 — and immigration trends in the same period.
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But he noted that the Great Depression, stagflation of the 1970s and most recently the Great Recession had all taken place since the Fed's creation more than a century ago, apparently confusing correlation with causation.
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If people had stumbled and incurred head injuries because they had early M.S., then their disease might be contributing to their concussions and not the other way around, a statistical issue known as reverse causation.
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The raw correlation between budget deficits and real output is negative, not positive, but everyone knows that this is because most of the causation runs from GDP to the budget, not the other way around.
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However, randomised controlled trials are expensive, so another way to identify causation is to focus on the biological mechanisms that link the chemicals commonly found in fruit and vegetables to physical changes in the body.
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However, as Tim Schneider notes in his market analysis, correlation is not causation: as data points accumulate, there will be a clearer idea of whether Hong Kong's art market decline is linked to political unrest.
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"First, we need to be careful about assuming causation from correlation when thinking about the impact naloxone laws might have on crime, opioid use, and other factors," Hawk, Egan and Keane wrote in an email.
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These stats don't take anything from correlation to causation, but they do make the case that people who sign up for dating sites that require thoughtful responses are in a better spot to settle down.
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Solar energy stocks mostly dropped on Monday as a rare total eclipse blotted out solar power in many parts of the United States, but analysts say this is likely a case of correlation, not causation.
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While correlation does not equal causation, the 2009 study was unsurprising to veterinary experts who posited to Medical News Today it could be because cats like to be petted and require less work than dogs.
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While acknowledging that convergence and causation are different, Mr Akyol argues that Jewish Christianity, more than any other strain in monotheism, resembles Islam's view of Jesus, which stresses his many unique characteristics but not divine Sonship.
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This is a cross-sectional study, which shows association, not causation, but "it reinforces the importance of having children get enough sleep, the importance of setting good bedtime routines, a good sleep environment," Dr. Tsao said.
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"The figures show a deep drop, which aligns, not causation but correlation, with the story that Lularoe expanded too quickly and ate into their initial sellers' market and/or that the merchandise is problematic," Foohey said.
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Critics point out that correlation does not imply causation, and that the same survey showed that 87% of "non-consensual penetration involving physical force" at Harvard took place in dorms, which are run by the university.
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Robert Glicksman, a professor of environmental law at the George Washington University Law School, points out that when states sued tobacco companies, they relied on a form of causation similar to that provided by attribution studies.
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They also cited Supreme Court precedent that cautions against RICO suits based on extended causation chains, as well as a 1999 7th Circuit ruling that dismissed healthcare plans' RICO claims against tobacco companies as too attenuated.
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Causation hasn't been proven, but in one Brazilian state the number of infants with the condition went from an average of nine per year to more than 600 in 2015, according to the New York Times.
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But it's not entirely clear whether the link between Peng's penchant for sock-sniffing and his illness was a correlation or causation—and there doesn't seem to be any definitive conclusion one way or the other.
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Of course, correlation does not prove causation; it is certainly possible that stress leads to unhealthy habits — poor nutrition, less physical activity, more smoking — and that this is the real reason for the increased cardiovascular risk.
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"To get to the bottom of causation, we've got to start with a simple accounting of how many cases there are," said Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, associate professor of neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
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He also emphasized that on its own, a chart doesn't demonstrate causation — we'd need to look at the timing of industrialization by region, and the timing of changes in well-being, to draw any conclusions there.
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It's difficult to establish any kind of linear causation relationship between whether advertisers were distinctly creating this or whether they were responding to cues in society and enforcing some of the elements that would sell better.
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And after several retrospective studies and analyses, including just recently, what those found, again, is that there's no causation between what they're seeing in the talc that they were actually mining and cancer or asbestos-related disease.
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Researchers said that, due to the sampling procedures, they could not determine causation from the results, meaning they couldn't say that the higher level of sexual desire was a result of having similar levels of preferred autonomy.
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The study, published Thursday in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, was a meta analysis and review of existing studies on the topic, and can only show an association between drinking and birth defects, not a causation.
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"This does not still prove causation... but it is an increasing accumulation of evidence in terms of the temporal–geographic association of the virus and the consequences that we are worried about," he told a news briefing.
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Weirdly, though visible light is used for the treatment of skin issues and aesthetic conditions in the form of lasers, intense pulsed light, and photodynamic therapy, it can also lead to causation of these issues, as well.
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Indeed, one review in BMJ found that one-third of university press releases contained either exaggerated claims of causation (when the study itself only suggested correlation), unwarranted implications about animal studies for people, or unfounded health advice.
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One limitation of the study is the potential for "reverse causation," in other words, it's possible failing health caused the loss of income or employment, instead of the reduced earnings causing heart problems, the study team acknowledges.
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"Although this study reveals an association between excess mercury exposure and non-melanoma skin cancer, causation is not well understood," said Dr. Aaron Farberg of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
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"Although this study reveals an association between excess mercury exposure and non-melanoma skin cancer, causation is not well understood," said Dr. Aaron Farberg of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
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The causation, he argues, goes the other way: when a civil war begins for whatever reason, that's when the lines between the groups are drawn, and what may have been minor, fairly benign differences become irreconcilable gulfs.
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PwC has blamed Corzine's risky trading and business strategy for MF Global's collapse, and expects to win at trial "regardless of the causation theory," Rich Marooney, a lawyer for PwC, said in a statement after Marrero ruled.
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Psychologist and author Sarah Rose Cavanagh published her rebuttal on Medium, claiming that Twenge's data is "cherry-picked" to reinforce preexisting biases, and that she falls into the old "correlation versus causation trap" in the conclusions she draws.
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While direct causation is nearly impossible to prove, she marshals correlations that link chronic exposure to low doses of radiation with thyroid, heart and eye disease, cancers, endocrine and digestive-tract disorders, anaemia, birth defects and infant deaths.
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Burger says he's skeptical the lawsuits will succeed, because of the political nature of the topic and because it'll be legally difficult to trace precise amounts of causation and blame to the oil industry, let alone particular companies.
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And there's also the pesky problem of causation and correlation: Just because women are diagnosed with mood disorders and paid less than men doesn't necessarily mean one issue causes the other, even if the two are closely related.
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While a firm causation between the Zika outbreak and the surge in microcephaly cases has yet to be established, a report in The New England Journal of Medicine last week demonstrated yet more evidence of a strong connection.
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In fact, the causation runs the other way: So long as the opposition and Assad continue to fight over the future of Syria, it will be nearly impossible to marshal a ground force that could stamp out JFS.
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Too often, says Klopfenstein, of the Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab, research confuses correlation with causation; highly motivated students tend to take more A.P. classes, and they also tend to do better in college and graduate on time.
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We still don't understand the limitations of observational studies No matter how many times you stress the difference between correlation and causation, people still look at "increased risk" and determine that the risk is causing the bad outcome.
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While the new study shows an association between anemia early in pregnancy, "an association is not the same as causation," said Dr. Nevert Badreldin, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.
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In the 1976 edition, the chapter on women and health care included a discussion of "the capitalist theory of disease causation," which detailed how the medical profession treated symptoms but failed to consider the social context of illness.
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Here Heartland is appropriating a basic scientific axiom—correlation does not equal causation—to basically say we can't know anything ever, even when other contributing factors have been accounted for and all of the evidence fits a particular hypothesis.
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Can I just point out this study is probably bunk, because healthy people tend to live longer and also healthy people are able to go to shows, so it&aposs more of a correlation then it is a causation.
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"This study cannot prove causation - but it lends support to the idea that surveillance for depression symptoms and treatment for depression could provide significant impact on patient outcomes, perhaps even a mortality benefit," he told Reuters Health by email.
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The judge said there was an "insufficiency of the evidence as to the causation as to both defendants" and ruled that there was error in law occurring at trial and misconduct of the jury, which led to excessive damages.
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I am the product of American academia (I often get sound bites from college trapped in my head like songs: Correlation does not imply causation … That is not a responsible sample size … Please give evidence to support your argument).
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While causation is difficult to establish, the correlation with the proportion of people unemployed or not looking for work in the U.S. in areas most affected by opioids suggests that this can ultimately lower participation in the labor force.
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"If we see the level of engagement or people deleting Facebook, if that becomes a trend over the coming months, then absolutely it will have a causation and effect on the perception and investments from our clients," King said.
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That leaves a potentially dangerous four-month stretch in which countries like the U.S. will treat Zika as "guilty until proven innocent" because of the severity of the correlation, and possibly causation, of the virus and the birth defects.
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But even if (and it's a big if) the timing was accidental — even if the plan to halt the film's release was underway before President Trump's thumbs started tapping — in the public eye, correlation seems awfully close to causation.
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More from VICE: The authors of the paper claim that some of the areas that distribute naloxone at higher rates are actually seeing an uptick in overdose deaths, a figure they argue is not mere correlation but actual causation.
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However, Ann Richardson, the University of Canterbury public health expert who co-conducted the 2017 literature review on this topic, points out that none of these studies established causation, showing what about open offices might lead to increased risks of illness.
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So even if our immigration philosophy is grounded firmly in cultural concerns — doesn't rely on race at all — and no matter how many times we repeat the mantra that "correlation is not causation," these racial dimensions are enough to spook conservatives.
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So even if our immigration philosophy is grounded firmly in cultural concerns doesn't rely on race at all, and no matter how many times we repeat the mantra that correlation is not causation, these racial dimensions are enough to spook conservatives.
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Faced with this vacuum, hundreds of people gathered in Tucson where wild speculations and carnivalesque pseudoscience were juxtaposed with sober sessions like "Agency and Mental Causation" and data-filled talks about probing conscious brain states with PET scans and EEGs.
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Although she agreed that this evidence is a "breakthrough," she noted that it is at present merely a correlative finding — more research is required to establish causation, namely the mechanism of harm, though other work has been done in that area.
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Midway through the trial, lawyers for PwC called for a mistrial, arguing that MF Global had shifted its claims of causation for the demise by focusing first on the European sovereign bonds and then on the firm's overall accounting strategy.
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Of course, the causation could run in both directions: Getting married could provide financial and emotional support that helps people succeed at work, while a challenging financial situation may make it more difficult for people to become and stay married.
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Zeroing in on this group of "close-call" cases — in which the leniency of the judge was the decisive factor — enabled the researchers to go a long way in establishing causation in the effects of cash bail on a person's future.
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"Too much of deep learning has focused on correlation without causation, and that often leaves deep learning systems at a loss when they are tested on conditions that aren't quite the same as the ones they were trained on," he says.
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So thinking about policy outcomes — and I realize it's hard to suss out the exact causation with things like this — what are some things about American life in the 2010s that are different than they would be absent the Federalist Society?
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He is tempted, however, into making everything new in the 17th century a result of climate change, and this can only be true by so diluting the notion of causation as to render his claim meaningless — or just plain vulnerable.
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Bayer has also asked that some of the plaintiffs' evidence on causation, specifically a finding by the World Health Organization's cancer unit that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic," be excluded in the first phase because it has no basis in science.
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But there's a reason every scientist has "correlation is not causation" tattooed on his soul: Just because some studies suggest wine drinkers live longer or dodge heart disease more frequently than others doesn't mean the wine itself deserves the credit.
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They have a really hard time with a small thing that happens here that could lead to a big problem down the line, and they have a really hard time if you can't see direct causation between one and the other.
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There is no proof of causation, of course; the high-growth companies have not necessarily prospered because they have used AI. The explanation could simply be that high-growth companies have more money to spend on technology and AI is the latest fashion.
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The purpose here is not so that a manager or customer service agent can perform these tests but, instead, making them aware of how statistics can be of use, to understand correlation versus causation and appreciate that forecasts always come with uncertainty.
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"While plaintiff offered evidence that consumption of coffee increases the risk of harm to the fetus, to infants, to children and to adults, defendants' medical and epidemiology experts testified that they had no opinion on causation," Berle wrote in his proposed ruling.
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"Although the article does not infer this as causation, it is theoretically possible that providers may be more quick to decide upon a cesarean delivery for a non-urgent patient if they have other patients to care for," Wright said by email.
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But this can get into tricky questions over correlation versus causation: Does keeping kids in school longer stop them from committing crime later on by keeping them off the streets and giving them the education they need to find a legal job?
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"The researchers stated that they didn't test the amount of polyphenols absorbed from the intestinal tract and plasma concentrations of the major polyphenols that were in the beer," she explains, so, what we're seeing in this paper is clearly correlation and not causation.
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The senior author, Dr. Hung Q. Ly, a cardiologist at the Montreal Heart Institute, said that drinking, eating junk food and the excitement of competition can all stress the heart, but the study is observational and he made no assertions about causation.
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Speaking of correlation and causation, Paul Krugman has a short bonus column (known in the old days as a blog post) on "the very bad, no good job much of the media initially did" covering the effects of the Trump tax cut.
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"The key issue is going to be causation, of who actually caused the death," said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, who said people who kill themselves are generally considered to have acted of their own will.
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Correlation is not causation of course (there may, for example, be a third variable affecting both pollution and crime) and the authors are cautious not to speculate about the precise mechanism by which contaminated air might lead to more rapes or robberies.
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Additional research would be needed to determine causation rather than just correlation, but Arria and her team have frequently studied the risks of energy drinks and tried to convince the FDA to increase regulations and require caffeine content to be listed on each can.
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Absolutely. Just like examples of kids who saw this violence on TV and ... acted on it, but there are so many kids who see the same kind of violence or porn and don't act on it that we can't really say there's a causation.
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I am ascribing causation and intent to the events in the video because I've read the synopsis on the exhibition's web page, but as I sat in the gallery watching and re-watching "Milk Tooth," the inner logic of its narrative often escaped me.
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The landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide came in July of 2015 While the study makes it clear this is a correlation and not a direct causation, it's the suicide attempt rates among marginalized groups that really make the comparison interesting.
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"With little evidence of causation, the next steps for research on anticholinergic medications in older adults must improve knowledge of the effect of deprescribing interventions on cognitive outcomes and important safety outcomes such as symptom control, quality of life, and health care utilization," they wrote.
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Their ultimate usefulness in explaining the world and its mysteries—including consciousness, other kinds of emergence, and the relationships between the micro and macro levels of reality—will come down to whether Hoel has nailed the notoriously tricky notion of causation: Namely, what's a cause?
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Tononi and colleagues hypothesize that the scale of peak causation should correspond, in the brain, to the scale of conscious decisions; based on brain imaging studies, Albantakis guesses that this might happen at the scale of neuronal microcolumns, which consist of around 100 neurons.
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While the topic was ostensibly tied to a real story—a study about the supposed connection between STIs and grooming down there—the research itself was a tad questionable, as Inside Science points out: it appears to be one for the "correlation, not causation" file.
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" She continued, "And it was Kagan who'd established a direct chain of causation—a connection between her questioning, the concession the Solicitor General made, Roberts's reliance on that concession, and the ability of lower courts to perhaps consider the President's statements in future cases.
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"There are studies that show heavy marijuana use has the potential to be a risk factor in triggering a first episode of psychosis, however, this correlation does not imply causation for violence," The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) told me in a statement.
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As Penn State sociologist Shannon Monnat found, Trump's overperformance compared with Romney in Rust Belt counties correlates with all sorts of declining health outcomes, including deaths due to drugs, alcohol, and suicide: Note that, like the opioid figures, this only finds correlation, not causation.
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During China's 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak, research indicated the disease was more deadly in regions of the country with lower air quality, but researchers hastened to add that this was an association rather than a causation, with possible confounding variables like socioeconomic status.
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"Studies of this kind show correlation much better than they reveal causation, so it's difficult to know how exactly the people of Star Carr successfully endured even the most extreme climate changes," wrote Degroot, who was not involved in the study, in an email.
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"Of course, as any Statistics 101 student will tell you, correlation does not necessarily indicate causation, but given the remarkably reliable rally we've seen, US index traders should definitely be paying close attention to any changes in the Fed's 'Not QE' schedule of repo purchases."
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"While plaintiff offered evidence that consumption of coffee increases the risk of harm to the fetus, to infants, to children and to adults, defendants' medical and epidemiology experts testified that they had no opinion on causation," Berle wrote in his proposed ruling, according to the Washington Post.
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"The resulting trial focused not on ascertaining the truth regarding the state of the science, causation, and compliance with legal duties, but instead on vilifying Monsanto in the abstract," the company, which bought Monsanto last year for $63 billion, said in motions filed with the court.
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As autistic self-advocates (those of us who are autistic ourselves) began to play a bigger role in autism policymaking, discussion began on the need to shift from an overwhelming emphasis on causation, biology, and cure to promoting new investments in services, educational methodologies, and assistive technology.
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Penning doesn't know for sure whether the tight coiling and pressure are the main reason for the kingsnake's prowess, so he's going back to keep observing these snakes to see what makes them such badasses—maybe the coil pattern is just a coincidence, since correlation isn't causation.
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Then a new generation of economists took it upon themselves to change that status quo, by carefully adopting better research designs better able to determine causation (not just correlation), and focusing heavily on actual experiments and quasi-experiments where it's clearer what factor is causing what.
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"Correlation of, say, a declining number of polar bears and a rising temperature does not establish causation between one and the other, for it is not at all unusual for two things to co-vary in parallel with other forcing factors," the institute's tiresome report reads.
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For Stock Markets, January Is a Cloudy Crystal Ball | The Stock Trader's Almanac first posited that January markets could foretell the direction of the trading year, but statistics experts say causation is impossible to prove — or disprove, James B. Stewart writes in the Common Sense column.
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"Based on the judgment of someone inside the department tasked with enforcing the FMLA, and despite the district court's effort to say what the law is, employers will now face a lower threshold of liability than they would have under the default causation standard," he wrote.
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He adds that while we can speculate that nicotine addiction might be an instance of some larger neurological trait — a tendency toward addiction in general, for example — this particular connection only proves how difficult it is to explain causation when it comes to ancient fragments of DNA.
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When it comes to BC and sex, correlation is not causation, of course, and there are many reasons why a couple that uses contraception may also have more sex: Frequency of sex could lead to BC use, rather than only the other way around, for example.
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According to Shtulman and Morgan, that's because our understanding of causation—our sense of which things make other things happen—is not a series of separate if-then statements but a vast interconnected web, which continues to govern our intuitions even when one particular strand snaps.
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Gleick is a polymathic thinker who can quote from David Foster Wallace's undergraduate thesis as readily as from Kurt Gödel or Lord Kelvin, and like many of the storytellers he thumbnails, he employs time travel to initiate engrossing discussions of causation, fatalism, predestination and even consciousness itself.
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"They cannot demonstrate causation because climate change stems from a complex, world-spanning web of actions across all fields of human endeavor, and Plaintiffs cannot plausibly connect their narrow asserted injuries — like flooding or drought in their neighborhoods — to any particular conduct by the government," they continued.
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One, which is familiar, is that economists don't get to do many experiments, and natural experiments are rare: the vast bulk of the data we see reflect the confounding effects of variables we aren't interested in, and reverse causation on the variables we are trying to assess.
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While association is not the same as causation, the research provides direction for next steps, said Dr. Ronald Tamler, Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, who was not involved in the study.
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He wants to abandon the current "weight of the evidence" standards that allows for a wide range of evidence to be considered, with credibility weighted according to the quality of study design, in favor of a very narrow class of studies that employ "manipulative causation" methods.
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He found a strong correlation between traffic deaths and scores given by the World Justice Project on rule of law, which grades countries based on surveys with 100,000 people and 2,400 experts on dozens of indicators: One caveat: The chart only shows a correlation, not causation.
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Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law, told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday that there's a "fairly good chance" the conviction could be reversed on appeal "based on causation," in that Carter didn't directly cause Roy's death — he caused his own death.
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Answering the critical causation question is a high priority for medical authorities, since it's possible that risk factors other than Zika are behind the microcephaly upswing as well as the worrisome occurrence of Guillain Barré Syndrome, which is immune disorder that can also affect adults and paralyze a victim.
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Yes, yes, correlation doesn't imply causation, but it's hard not to at least smirk at the extreme coincidence, the way McGregor's loss fits so neatly into what's known in gaming circles as the "Madden Curse," which has now affected all cover stars for EA's UFC games as well.
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But other state and federal courts have required plaintiffs to show a direct link between a defendant's conduct and a plaintiff's alleged injuries – some imposing a "but-for" standard, some insisting on a more stringent proximate cause standard and still others not specifying what causation test they would apply.
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Correlation may not establish causation but it should be concerning for the religious and nonreligious alike --particularly for those who don't want to lend legitimacy to the President's comments about Mexicans as rapists, women as p---y to be grabbed, or black NFL players protesting police brutality as SOBs.
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He frequently made the basic error of conflating correlation with causation, and while Strumia claimed to be proving that there is no discrimination against women, his arguments were rooted in a circumscribed, biased reading of the data available, to the point of promoting a perspective that is biased against women.
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This could be a mere correlation that Amazon Music has an older demographic (according to this data, it does) and smart speakers are bought by an older demographic; on the other hand, it may suggest causation that people who buy smart speakers often adopt the default Amazon Music streaming service.
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Putnam has asked the court to review a crucial question of so-called loss causation, namely whether plaintiffs have the burden of proving that a defined contribution plan manager caused losses to the plan or whether the burden is on the defendant to prove it did not cause a loss.
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"Although PwC may well be surprised that some of the prior allegations in the case may differ from theory of causation the plan administrator has advanced up to this point at trial, because that theory has been disclosed before, PwC cannot at this late stage claim to be prejudiced," Marrero wrote.
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"The extent of potential liability for December 2017 Wildfire-related damages depends on a number of factors, including whether SCE substantially caused, or contributed to, the damages and whether parties seeking recovery of damages will be required to show negligence in addition to causation," the company said in the filing.
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Today, California has some of the strictest gun laws in the country, and while correlation is not causation, the state's total annual firearm deaths have fallen even as the population has grown; though the gun death rate has dropped across the country in the last 20 years, it's dropped more steeply in California.
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This is only a correlation, not a causation, but it fits in with the hygiene hypothesis: the idea that recent increases in many auto-immune diseases are the result of an over-sanitized childhood environment, which prevents a kid's immune system from learning how to differentiate between trivial threats and serious ones.
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Though Pielke is careful about ascribing direct causation, he notes that the biggest drops occurred after the 2300 suicide of Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau (who was later found to have C.T.E., the degenerative disease linked to repeated blows to the head) and the release of the movie "Concussion" in 217.
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There's no clear line of causation linking the change in North Carolina's black maternal mortality rate and their unique Pregnancy Medical Home approach — the program just happened to be the one things that came up again and again when I asked people working in this area about what North Carolina was doing differently.
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Similar results have been found for other teas—green tea is associated with a lower risk of colorectal or stomach cancer, for instance, and black tea may reduce the likelihood of heart disease (the design of these studies, like McKay's, only points to a correlation between tea consumption and health outcomes, not necessarily causation).
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"Some of the power of this tour's narrative arc is that you start in a place right before the Civil War, which is a heavily moralistic period, and then even when we as a society know about germs and microorganisms and the agents of disease causation, the moral element never goes away," Favaloro said.
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That's not to assume causation with the decriminalization of evasion, and even comparing the D.C. Metro—a relatively confined operation that infamously shuts down too early to bring home those who venture out to see late-night sports or concert events—to New York City's sprawling 24/7 system is not a perfect match.
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For example, algorithms are often programmed to assume unidirectional causation: If A, then B. But is it truly that defendants with higher rates of recidivism warrant longer sentences or is it that defendants with longer sentences are kept out of their communities, unemployed and away from their families longer, naturally increasing their recidivism risk?
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Although fans have often been asked to imagine themselves as the heroes they admire, the pervading idea has been that comic books featuring legacy heroes who are mostly men — and mostly white men at that — were the only ones that could be successful, since they traditionally had the biggest sales (correlation and causation be damned).
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For example Energy in Depth, which was launched in 2009 by the Independent Petroleum Association of America and regularly rebuts studies on fracking, in a post in April pointed to a statement from Colorado's chief medical officer and director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment who cautioned against misinterpreting correlation as causation.
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Hardeman's case featured a significant difference from that trial after Chhabria decided to split cases before him into two phases: one to decide causation on purely scientific grounds, the other to determine Bayer's potential liability and damages only if the jury first ruled that the weed killer was a substantial factor in causing cancer.
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Although the problem is often portrayed as a direct causation in the media—for example: a former player committed suicide because he had head trauma—it is typically a combination of many factors that cause a former NFL player or military veteran to struggle when they return to normal society, much like it was for Kemp and Kittel.
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"That's the part of this that is interesting to me, is the notion of causation: the notion that these women were somehow putting a spell on the men so that the men were doing what they would otherwise not have done," said Nancy Gertner, a former federal judge and Harvard Law lecturer who is on Carter's appellate team.
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In " War and Peace ," Tolstoy writes that, while an armchair general may imagine himself "analyzing some campaign on a map" and then issuing orders, a real general never finds himself at "the beginning of some event"; instead, he is perpetually situated in the middle of a series of events, each a link in an endless chain of causation.
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Then a new generation of economists — like Card, the late Alan Krueger, MIT's Joshua Angrist, and many others — took it upon themselves to change that status quo, by carefully adopting research designs better able to determine causation (not just correlation), and focusing heavily on actual experiments and quasi-experiments where it's clearer what factor is causing what phenomenon.
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A study by the Harvard Business Review in 2016 found that those who took 11 or more days off a year were almost twice as likely to get a raise or a bonus as those who took ten days off or fewer (although the causation could be the other way around; star workers may feel they can afford to take a break).
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Dr. David L. Heymann, a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the chairman of the W.H.O.'s advisory panel that recommended declaring the emergency, said then that such a comparison of two groups equal in all ways except for one important factor — known as a case-control study — was needed to prove causation.
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But a study published this morning in Nicotine & Tobacco Research calls this theory into question, and finds that what we thought was causation may just be correlation: it's possible that the demographic of person who takes up vaping, due to a number of cultural and institutional forces, is the same kind who would have taken up cigarettes anyway, had vaping not existed.
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As Vox's Dylan Matthews pointed out in his analysis of Clinton's autism plan, many of the recommendations included within it are aligned with the lobbying goals of autistic adults and other more progressive stakeholders in the autism world, who have long been encouraging a focus on services, instead of the singular focus on cure and causation that's usually driven conversations around autism.
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