causation

Within sociology, it meant that any inequality among groups was de facto the result of discrimination, rendering moot other possible theories, Redstone says: “We’re treating questions around causation as settled.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

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

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

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

He is still only taking the first step in the sequence of causations.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

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