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causation

[kaw-zay-shuhn] / kɔˈzeɪ ʃən /






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Although those findings did not establish causation, they provided additional reasons to investigate the potential connection.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

Correlation doesn’t prove causation, but, wow, the correlation here is striking.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

I was careful not to formally assert the level of causation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

He explained that language emphasizing causation over correlation and other results biases is a problem in scientific research at-large, but in his opinion, this is an egregious example.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2026

The term ‘law’ implies unbroken regularity, with no exceptions, but nothing is conveyed about causation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The city of L.A. has still not declared an emergency regarding our untenable and inhumane homelessness crisis, nor taken significant steps to address the causations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

Deisseroth says his laboratory research informs the psychiatric patient care that he continues to give, yet many of the landmark studies are about causations and chemical pathways in genetically modified mice, not humans.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2021

Details of the Arizona tragedy will emerge and provide a fuller picture of the factors and causations.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2011

Chronic Inflammation.—A variety of types of chronic and subacute inflammation are met with which, owing to ignorance of their causations, cannot at present be satisfactorily classified.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

Roads were too bad, cities too difficult of access, travellers too rare, books too incapable of transmission, for any solution which should explain the chain of coincidences into a chain of natural causations.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp


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