Sentences with phrase «about causality»

The researchers point out, however, that it was an observational study and that no definite conclusions about causality between Apgar score and the risk of neurological morbidity in babies can be drawn.

«This is a cross-sectional study; we can not say anything about causality,» he explains.

It was meant to draw attention to a feature of action that calls for a recasting of many received ideas about causality, and some other features of action that call for a recasting of some received ideas on the role of mind both in action and in human affairs in general.

It is important to look at data objectively and not make assumptions about causality without explicit evidence.

«Remarkably, they learn about causality even if the people they are watching make mistakes and are right some but not all of the time.»

As pragmatic as I may sound, being part of the committee is important to spread the word about the causality of everything that could involve our community cats.

For a real scientist that is the signal that conclusions can not be drawn about causality concerning human behavior.

Finally, this conclusion about causality fails to answer the question of why antitrust suits are typically brought after the stock market has climbed for years or even decades to a state of overvaluation in a climate of rampant speculation rather than at any other time.

Materialism and dualism lack these resources and are in Hume's predicament about causality.

This abrupt turn from a causal theory of consciousness to talk about emergent properties not only leaves the puzzle about causality dangling, it compounds the mystery by evoking still more elementary puzzles about the meaning of emergence and evolution, as well as about how and where to locate sentience in an evolving «physical world.»

Except we're not so sure about that causality.

Such is the case with most of the big questions about the history of the Earth, says Paul Renne, director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center: «Often, our arguments about causality depend on timing.»

The authors note that the results stem from cross-sectional data, limiting the ability to reach a conclusive determination about causality.

The title It Follows plays another neat trick: it's an invitation to a conversation about causality («Should this happen, then it follows that...»).

Turning transfer inside out: The affordances of virtual worlds and mobile devices in real world contexts for teaching about causality across time and distance in ecosystems.

Randomized evaluations of educational interventions are important for producing, in comparison to studies employing other methods, reliable findings about causality.

Making judgments about causality based on observations at one point in time is highly problematic, so much so that it is surprising that NCES commissioned a study to analyze the NAEP data set for this purpose.

I spoke on the phone last week to Simon Craddock Lee, the cancer analyst at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center cited above, about breast cancer in Texas and he pointed to the reality that raw rates of cancer incidence and deaths say nothing about causality, given the mix of social and environmental factors in play.

What's a judge and jury to think about causality, much less an alleged nuisance and remedy?

She turned his life upside - down and she couldn't care less about the causalities left in the wake of her selfish decision (all according to Alan).

Reasoning backwards about causality produces backward thinking.

The reductionist ideas about causality that pervade science misrepresent the way things happen in the real world, argues physicist George Ellis

Pain is the experience of derivation in the extreme (no one with a burned hand or cracked ribs can take seriously Hume's doubts about causality).

In our study, symptoms of depression occurred in the two weeks before interview and sexual dissatisfaction in the year before interview but, as we don't know when the period of infertility occurred, we can not make assumptions about causality and are in favour of further investigation into the long term impact of infertility on women's well - being.»

Learning about causality — about the physical rules that govern the world around us — is a crucial part of our cognitive development.

They conclude: «As this study is cross-sectional we can not draw any conclusions about causality or the exact effect of the diet or beverage.

The study is observational and draws no conclusions about causality, but the senior author, Dr. Verena Sengpiel, of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, said that «Women should stick to the current recommendations, and then try to reduce as much as possible.

It has things to say about causality, even down to the casting, with a dead - on Martin Short as the coked - out head of a criminal smuggling empire Doc somehow misconstrues to be a Chinese man.

Make note of these trends and what these trends might tell you about causality between increased atmospheric CO2 and ocean acidity.