Pinker says, "Religion is a desperate measure that people resort to when the stakes are high and they have exhausted the usual techniques for the causation of success".
139 A decade after stillbirth registration began in Scotland, the GRO in London, as a result of Scotland's apparent success in relation to stillbirth causation, began to consider implementing similar measures.
Ultimate causation Extroverts have more mating success, but also run extra risks, selecting for a balance between extro- and introversion (Nettle 2005) How does it develop?
While these statistics relating player and team success can only imply correlation, and not necessarily causation, they definitely have potential to be eye-catching sports headlines.
Second, there is the argument from the success of causal modeling techniques, which maintains that causation must be relative to a model so that modeling techniques may be exploited.
Just to mention a few examples, McDermott (1995) builds description-relativity into an overall account of causation that enjoys a fair amount of success.
This follows recent philosophical practice of sharply distinguishing views and theories of what causation is from any conclusions about the success or failure of determinism (cf. Earman, 1986; an exception is Mellor 1994).
It's also possible, of course, that causation runs the other way, and that WiSTEM is finding success, in part, because Chicago's ecosystem is friendly to women founders.
Reverse causation is also plausible, whereby infant temperament affects the relative success of breastfeeding [ 35].
(The success of this endeavor is debatable, as discussed in the section on divine causation).
