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causation

[kaw-zey-shuhn] / kɔˈzeɪ ʃən /






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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

Such confounding and mediating factors undermine the plaintiffs’ claims of causation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 27, 2026

"Everyone has heard it a million times, but it bears repeating: Correlation doesn't equal causation," Gennaro said.

From Science Daily Dec. 14, 2025

In principle, one expects the chain of causation to operate in both directions.

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

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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