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causation

[kaw-zay-shuhn] / kɔˈzeɪ ʃən /






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The authors also note that reverse causation is possible, meaning healthier people may simply be more able to attend cultural events.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

While they identified a relationship between food insufficiency and sports gambling, they noted that direct causation for such a large issue is difficult to establish.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

With social media, it may be difficult to prove causation for an individual, but once we consider population-level research, the link is undeniable, as it was with tobacco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

I would single out four: methodology, causation, prediction, and complexity.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

IN their precise tracings-out and subtile causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville

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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