Yes if you got a correlation that strong it must be causal.
The human studies all are observational, showing only an association between cellphone use and cancer, not a causal relationship.
Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit.
Suddenly I had this big vision about the whole deterministic universe, myself, my place in it and all these different points where we believe we're making decisions just reflecting some causal flow.
But perhaps the causal connection runs in the other direction.
The basic method of Jaspers' psychopathology is phenomenological description, psychological understanding and causal explain.
Thus learning effects are theoretically distinct from scale effects, even if in practice they my be hard to differentiate due to e.g. uncertainty and causal ambiguity.
The researchers found a causal linkage with a decline in average human height by nearly an inch during this period, and the century was rife with disease and conflict.
We know that there can be correlation without causal relations.
Okay different types of inductive arguments are inductive generalizations, causal generalizations, arguments from analogy, and arguments from authority.
Furthermore, chronically sleeping poorly (in contrast to not enough) is linked to cognitive decline in old age, although the relationship may not be causal.
No surprise, then, that neither USDA nor the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies has been able to establish a causal link between food deserts and dietary health.
Ultimately it may be hard to prove a causal connection between inequality, subprime lending and the Wall Street boom.
Clearly, not all these criteria need to be present, and neither does each carry equal weight for a causal relationship between an adverse event and the vaccine to be determined.
Nothingis more familiar than the causal interaction between our minds and our bodies.
If you ask me, now is a perfectly reasonable time to be analyzing such possible causal relationships, like the one between climate change and earthquakes (which set off tsunamis).
Now, it's often said this is a major problem for Cartesian dualism because if you're a dualist then it looks like you have to deny causal closure.
Of course, trend-spotting is no substitute for causal modeling; and the models are getting truly scary in their implications.
However, there is insufficient evidence at present to support the hypothesis that depression has a direct causal relationship with subsequent dementia.
For another thing, causal knowledge will help us to prevent accidents like this in the future.
Ask Zen master: how can master control emotions and get angry? Jackson: that is not causal, puzzled, caused by all the scores are causal, no anger no fans.
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