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Discover LudwigThe word "Causation" is correct
It is used in contexts where one event is said to cause another, often in scientific, legal, or philosophical discussions. Example: "The study aimed to establish a clear link between smoking and lung cancer, demonstrating causation rather than mere correlation."
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Similarly, other major economic shocks, such as the US crises of 1893, 1907 and 1919, and the post-second world war inflation, were primarily monetary in causation and character.
This study doesn't provide proof of causation.
It is deliberately arbitrary, the idea clearly being to renounce completely the very idea of narrative causation.
Significantly, the study itself does not claim to prove a causation – leaving open the possibility to discuss the pink elephant that lurks in the room behind all social discussions of problem drinking: the prevalent, if sometimes well-camouflaged, existence of actual alcoholics.
They're the stats of widespread abuse that needs more than loose causation and euphemisms to treat it.
"But correlation is not causation, and it was a far, far, far from perfect correlation.
If causation primarily runs from growth to debt, then pro-cyclical austerity measures are a poor solution.
What is more, the direction of causation is not always clear.
But the shadow lingers.Again, correlation is not causation, but if SSRIs are causing suicides, then that effect must be small compared with whatever has been bringing the suicide rate down over the past decade.
And at any rate the key debate, over causation, is mostly unresolved.
Correlation is not causation but the statistical relationship shows that investors do better when the population is rising and pushing up GDP than when productivity growth alone is pushing up GDP.
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