Sentences with phrase «[factual causation»

Correlation isn't causation.

Scientists and educators have long noted that kids who have a positive attitude towards math do better in the subject, but is that just because acing tests naturally makes you enjoy something, or does the arrow of causation point the other way?

«In a legal sense, that could be the equivalent of admitting causation,» says Marc Edelman, associate professor of law at Baruch College in New York City.

Prior to my graduate courses in statistics I had thought that correlation (a mutual relationship) was the same as causation (the cause of a thing, event or effect).

However, just because there happens to be a nearly perfect correlation for those two variables doesn't mean that large feet will make (causation) you a better reader.

What it's about: This work of nonfiction intertwines an intimate experience of poverty in America with clear cut causation and politics, using the eviction crisis in Milwaukee, Wis., as a backdrop.

So those commentators who say that we won't get housing improvement until we have job improvement have causation exactly backwards.

And it can't distinguish causation from correlation.

«We have a dead 15 - year - old with no causation on his part or anybody of the vehicle,» Merritt said on Monday.

And just as we frequently mistake correlation for causation, we're susceptible to what's called the «gambler's fallacy,» the belief that anomalies from expected outcomes in a random process are likely to be evened out by their opposites in the future — or, more simply, the idea that a roulette ball that's landed eight straight times on black is therefore more likely on the ninth spin to land on red.

It wasn't designed to examine causation.

At Oxford University, Tony Honoré made his name as an expert on causation and moral responsibility in the law.

Can the filing of a judicial complaint against a company constitute a revelation of the alleged fraud sufficient to establish loss causation?

Juwai.com and Sotheby's International Realty Canada caution that such research and data can be useful in establishing trends over time, but do not imply causation with sales activity or real estate market performance.

There need be no simple direction of causation but a loop.

Lots of assumptions you made, correlation vs. causation.

The causation versus correlation isn't clear in the rest of the report, either.

Correlation does not equal causation, as they say, and there are a number of factors that can drive higher average unit volumes, such as having a drive - through, a broader menu, and more marketing spending, but the numbers above do seem to favor the fresh - beef chains.

As is often said, «correlation does not imply causation,» and this could be true here.

On their motion for summary judgment, defendants argued that plaintiffs had not satisfied the loss causation requirement of Section 10 (b) because plaintiffs» losses were not caused by the revelation that First Solar had committed fraud.

The Ninth Circuit's holding in First Solar marks its first definitive resolution of the internal conflict in its case law on loss causation.

In recent years, defendants in Section 10 (b) actions in the Ninth Circuit have routinely cited to the Metzler line of cases to support an argument that loss causation is absent in any case where losses were sustained prior to the market learning the fact that defendants had committed fraud.

The district court in First Solar ultimately applied the standard from the Daou line of cases and held that plaintiffs did not need to show that the market reacted to the fact that First Solar had committed fraud in order to satisfy the loss causation requirement.

In In re Oracle Corp., the Ninth Circuit similarly held that plaintiffs can not prove loss causation «by showing that the market reacted to the purported «impact» of the alleged fraud... rather than to the fraudulent acts themselves.»

The court held that a plaintiff may prove loss causation by showing that revelation of the very facts misrepresented or omitted by the defendant caused the plaintiff's economic loss, even if the fraud itself was not revealed to the market.

The Court announced that «[t] o prove loss causation, plaintiffs need only show a causal connection between the fraud and the loss by tracing the loss back to the very facts about which the defendant lied.»

The Ninth Circuit took a similar approach in Berson v. Applied Signal Technology, Inc., and ultimately fashioned a standard for loss causation in Nuveen v. City of Alameda when it held that a plaintiff can establish loss causation «by showing that the defendant misrepresented or omitted the very facts that were a substantial factor in causing the plaintiff's economic loss.»

The Ninth Circuit held that where disclosure of «the company's true financial condition» caused the stock to drop, loss causation was satisfied, even though the company's fraudulent accounting practices were not revealed to the market.

That is, to satisfy the loss causation requirement, a plaintiff need not point to a revelation that the defendants committed fraud, but rather only to a revelation of the facts concealed by the fraud.

You've probably heard before that correlation does not imply causality (or causation, if you prefer), but do you really understand what this means and why this is important in conversion optimization?.

Correlation is not causation, but there are compelling reasons to expect a relationship in this case.

Correlation does not prove causation.

It is beyond the scope of either the poll or this article to determine causation.

Correlation is not causation.

«It's all about identifying, first of all, the causation, leading to the correlation [which then leads to] the conclusion.»

There's a tendency for marketers to interpret the information they get from Big Data as causations.

While Big Data is useful for finding correlations, Small Data identifies something more important: causations.

Start with causation, not with correlation.

If he tailspins, then he may make the leap in logic to presume he's being punished and make the same logical error that EVERY believer makes... correlation versus causation.

Well put, However no conclusion can be drawn as to causation.

A quantum gravitational phase is not a supernatural causation it is a mathematical construct but it is drifting towards an abstract of reality.

How is that atheists can claim there is no supernatural causation without any evidence whatsoever then accuse believers of making claims without evidence?

If causation can be experimentally proven that will be an added bonus.

The premoderns said that without the purposefulness of final causation, all things would be equally valueless, and the postmoderns say there is no purpose and no value.

It might seem, however, that we do not need to enter into the technicalities of epistemology in order to see the necessity of final causation for knowledge, but we could discover this necessity by examining history instead.

Where then does the root - commodities of religious socialisms truly matter and «riotizingly» materialize upon spatterings regarding irrational causations?

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

In the process, cadets tried to discern continuity and causation in complicated events, and from a name, mere words on a page, they worked to reverse - engineer a life.

Correlation does not mean causation.

I only skimmed your comments and the URL you posted, but it looks like this is a classic case of confusing correlation with causation.