The clear confusion of association and causation is appalling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Truth TOPS Bias at TOS Meeting] Reference

Final causation is a philosophical matter, not a scientific one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins and ID] Reference

Untangling correlation and causation is difficult, and many of the causes overlap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beating Obesity] Reference

His conclusion is right out of a Freakonomics lesson in causation vs. correlation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love Your Job? That Doesn’t Mean You’re Better at It - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

If the law causation is not valid prove it!!!! with out appealing to the very same law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins and ID] Reference

It addresses how much chance causation is involved in a proposed evolutionary scenario.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

Assuming correlation to be causation is a fundamental deviation from scientific method.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Updated Climate Presentation] Reference

The Stoics believe that causation is absolute and that everything is fated and unalterable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Repent! « So Many Books] Reference

FMM: If the law causation is not valid prove it!!!! with out appealing to the very same law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins and ID] Reference

Either way, as Matt says, the connection between counterfactuals and causation is a tight one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Who, Indeed?] Reference

Irrelevent unless you can also demonstrate how much design causation is involved in a proposed evolutionary scenario.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference

You want to assume that causation is universal at all levels of physical existence, but scientists have some doubts about this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins and ID] Reference

Shorter version: When huge disruptive events happen that throw off normal societal restraints tracking causation is very messy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Financial Crisis and Causation] Reference

Their combination is the history of the idea of causation in law.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference

You said correlation before, not causation, which is what you're saying here.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Are there drawbacks to being so smart?"] Reference

And therefore, all the causation, which is the legal term, doesn ` t fall on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2009] Reference

Out of this religious practice grew one major strand of the idea of causation in law.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference

All the ramifications of the idea of causation in religious history have this dual character.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference

For, otherwise, the mental causation must have been the cause of that causation, which is absurd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference

To begin regularly, we must consider the idea of causation, and see from what origin it is derived.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise of Human Nature] Reference

To begin regularly, we must consider the idea of causation, and see from what origin it is deriv'd.    From Wordnik.com.  [A treatise of human nature] Reference

No causation is implicated in the article; just correlation: мебелиWhat Happy People Don’t Do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooperative Blog » 2008 » November] Reference

Risk was seen as local and governed by direct causation, that is, buy short-term individual decisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Lakoff: The Obama Code] Reference

But the question whether the idea of causation is necessary, or not, is really of very little importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hume (English Men of Letters Series)] Reference

In the nineteenth century, English and American law used the idea of causation, primarily in tort law, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference

Negative causation occurs when an absence serves as cause, effect, or causal intermediary … So what is causation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Triablogue] Reference

Notice that the above closure principle implies occasionalism when the notion of causation is treated univocally in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creation and Conservation] Reference

Therefore, the idea of causation as between the Absolute Volition and the Relative Volition is an idea destitute of meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind and Motion and Monism] Reference

But the "causation" and "redressability" would be much harder to look at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who can sue to force the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases?] Reference

I have yet to see a study which adequately demonstrates any kind of causation for the obesity itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study] Reference

A comprehensive theory of causation in law, they framed the idea of causation from three familiar fac - tors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION IN LAW] Reference

But this would be a superficial analysis using "causation," saying "this caused that," and I think most Americans understand this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lies of the Times: Obama needs to fufill his promise] Reference

Statistics, and their 'causation' are quite subjective.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Physical causation need not be the only kind of causation, and when.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

It makes me wonder if "causation" is the best terminology to use here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boundless Line] Reference

It is open to any kind of causation-random or designed-in accordance with the evidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution News & Views] Reference

How often is that seen, even when "causation" is never put forward, just the FACT of correlation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

The explanations are found after the event, and that is regarded as causation which is really coincidence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Eugenics] Reference