correlative

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Because it is indeed difficult to separate the casual from the correlative, even the authors of the new Nature Climate Change agree that further research is needed to prove those links are more than correlation.

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2024

To confirm that these glycan-associated disruptions were causal rather than merely correlative, the research team engineered HIV-specific antibodies designed to exhibit the same kind of aberrant IgG glycan modifications observed in PLWH.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

Anderson, himself something of a master of counterintuitive alternatives, gives this idea its own fascinating cinematic correlative.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

There’s a method in genetics called Mendelian randomization that mimics a randomized controlled trial, so we can test for causal and not correlative associations between different foods and different diseases.

From Scientific American • Aug. 1, 2023

He pointed out that, far from our being made in the image of God, we make our gods in our own image: ‘we forge for ourselves the attributes of God, taking ourselves as the correlative.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton