Sentence examples for without causation from inspiring English sources

That's because "lost the locker room" is a phrase without meaning, the timeworn logical fallacy of correlation without causation.

"Claiming that a decline in non-fatal shark bites is due only to the presence of nets is a case of correlation without causation".

In brief, 'There can be correlation without causation and vice versa' (Glass & Hopkins 1984, p. 107).

Fourth, there is the argument from joint effects, which maintains that it will not help to analyze the causal order as the temporal order because there are joint effect cases in which there is a temporally ordered connection without causation.

Yes, if you are willing to accept correlation without causation and you expect history to repeat itself, even though you know full well that past performance is no indicator of future results!

While I believe that the belief that tablets are eating into PC sales is correlation without causation, I do think that the race to the bottom in PC prices and netbook sales has negatively effected PC makers who are now facing a customer – of their own making – who expects more for considerably less.

But even without mental causation, scenario (B) is relevant to ubiquitous correlations between conscious mental states and brain states.

Yet many things that occur in history remain blurry and without known causation, much to the chagrin of historians.

Though studies of large populations of people have indeed found that those who smoke marijuana are more likely to use other drugs, these studies show a correlation without showing causation — a commonly misunderstood phenomenon in science.

Are these phenomena causes and/or consequences of genetic instability and progression, or less interestingly, correlations without demonstrable causation?

For this reason alone, meta-analysis will be with us for the foreseeable future, but clinicians and the media do need to learn what results are reliable, what are merely signals of possible effect, and what are associations without likely causation.