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How to use the word causation in a Sentence?

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It’s an interesting association, but causation is definitely not proven, we have to see if there’s a viable and biologically plausible mechanism by which a small amount of lithium in the water supply can somehow do this, yet pharmacologic dosing of lithium in women with bipolar disorder has not been reported to be causing increased risk of ASD.

Max Wiznitzer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While these findings do not clearly prove causation, the known impact of diet on intestinal health and the large size of many of these studies suggest caution when consuming such a diet.

Avinash Ketwaroo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

That's not protecting the public. That's not serving the public. They had to stop Daunte Wright, the causation was Daunte Wright.

Kim Potters trialWhen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This ‘ journalism of omission ’ is being done consciously and does a disservice to the news consuming public, context in news stories is important and the background of the alleged perpetrator is part of that context.It provides a sense of causation for why an event happened.Thesenews topics are sensitive, of course, but it does society no good when news outlets want to sanitize content in order to massage public perception.

Wisoncin DOJ -RRB- McCall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To better understand the order and the direction of causation in these relationships, future research will need to build a picture of how sleep patterns, biological processes, and cognitive skills change over longer periods of time, this new research is from a large, international study on cognitively healthy people, but it did rely on participants to report their sleep duration rather than measuring it directly.

Laura Phipps

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Whilst association does not necessarily mean causation it is difficult to escape the conclusion that celebrations around the Euros have been an important factor in driving up the epidemic in the U.K..

Paul Hunter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

As far as her medical condition is concerned, I would leave medical causation issues up to the physician, but if there’s clinical support that the type of abuse she suffered at Epstein’s hands could be related to some of the conditions that she has, then obviously we ’ll pursue that theory in litigation.

Spencer Kuvin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These studies can only suggest an association and can not establish causation, for example, some women who report high stress may also have decreased sleep, irregular or unhealthy diets, or increased rates of substance use. It is unclear whether it is the' stress' that causes the adverse outcome.

Laura Berman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Theyve been the principal origin for the active pharmaceutical ingredient in prescription opioids in the country for the last two decades, it is one of the most important elements of causation with regard to why the defendants ... are responsible for the epidemic in the country and in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

United States was not set up to establish causation, united States know there are many factors that are associated with both obesity and cancer, such as lack of exercise and poor diet. How much each of those factors contribute to cancer is less clear.

George Chang

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Previous research mostly looked at correlation : How much do you use Facebook and how depressed are you ? these studies show that people who use Facebook more are more depressed, but the problem is correlation doesn't create causation. We didn't know if Facebook was making people depressed or depressed people were retreating into Facebook.

Hunt Allcott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Infectious agents have been implicated in the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease before, but the evidence of causation hasn't been convincing.

Stephen Dominy

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There appears to be some evidence that as vaccine numbers increase, rates of autism increase, we need better research, and we need it fast. We also need complete transparency of any data. Vaccines are essential to good population health. But that does not mean we should not look closely at the correlation for any causation.

Mark Green

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There probably is reverse causation, but one of the things that some of the longitudinal research suggests is that when you look at kids over time -- so controlling for baseline rates of misbehavior -- children who are disciplined with corporal punishment versus those who are not, who have the same kinds of behavior problems, show increases in behavior problems over time in a way that children who aren't disciplined that way don't, so yes, there is probably some truth to the idea that kids who are predisposed to misbehavior for whatever reason are more likely to be spanked by parents who use that form of discipline than kids who are less likely to misbehave for whatever reason.

Rebecca Ryan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There are statistical techniques available to do this, for instance using time-series analysis, which attempt to link changes in a putative risk factor with changes in the outcome of interest over time. This was not done here, second, even if such a link were found, correlation does not imply causation.

Lion Shahab

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It is important to be cautious about associations, as they do not prove causation, for example, depression is common before the onset of dementia, and so those individuals receiving an antidepressant drug with anticholinergic effects may already have a disease such as Alzheimer's disease that will lead to dementia 10 years later.

Martin Rossor

Found on CNN
6 years ago

I think the general message always should be that association studies do not actually imply causation.

Adrian Vella

Found on CNN
7 years ago

One piece is unlikely to be to important as to causation, it they recover additional pieces and additional evidence, there could be a different dynamic from the legal perspective concerning airline manufacturers.

Brian Alexander

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I did not say vaccines caused disorders, just that they were temporally related -- I did not allege causation. I support vaccines, I receive them myself and I had all of my children vaccinated, in fact today, I received the booster shot for the vaccines I got when I went to Guatemala last year.

Rand Paul

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I think that there would need to be more studies to build up causation.

Pam Factor-Litvak

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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