Sentence examples for a causation from inspiring English sources

I hope that for all of us, the trend is simply an association and not a causation.

"The problem it is so difficult to carry out a causation analysis," Mr Hennessy said.

"Therefore a causation issue may arise in realation to the emergency response, which has not been previously considered," the IPCC said.

Seth Carnahan, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor who conducted the survey with Brad Greenwood, an assistant professor at Temple University, emphasized that the findings are only a correlation, not a causation.

As you have stated, there is a 2 per cent, perhaps 4 per cent increase in the prevalence of schizophrenia in teenage cannabis users, but that "excess" is well within the 20 per cent plus rate of undiagnosed illness, and remains an association, not clearly a 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.

There is a causation-as-transfer metaphor here, and it seems to be compatible with the double object construction but not with the recipient-PP.

Theresa and Michael Cedillo filed a vaccine injury claim on behalf of their daughter on December 9 , 1998for encephalopathy, but on January 14 , 2002 changed their petition to a causation-in-fact claim, meaning they were arguing that Michelle developed autism as a result of the combined effects of thimerosal and the MMR vaccine.

However, here we have a downward causation, as MPF resides at a lower level than the pheromones.

Some studies found an inverse association with educational level suggesting a social causation or downward drift due to migraine.

I wonder if we might be getting a little causation mixed in with our correlation here.