Sentences with phrase «absence of any causal relationship»

Economic conditions may independently affect all of the above, making these variables move together even in the absence of any causal relationship.

Not exact matches

GRAPH III: Various circular social phenomena caused by the absence of the included third of special relationships meaning for the contradiction between the individual level and the general level of relationship, all deriving from the projection of the causal pair of emotional war and physical war

If teachers tend to rely more on lectures when assigned more capable or attentive students, this would generate a positive relationship between the amount of time spent lecturing and student achievement, even in the absence of a true causal effect.

Hawkins» research methods and analysis are so problematic that the suggestion of a causal relationship between the presence of cats and the absence of birds (native or otherwise) is highly inappropriate (indeed, Hawkins scarcely investigates predation at all).

The court also collected many Florida and foreign cases supporting a potentially broader «no accident» rule: The «lack of other accidents may be admissible to show (1) an absence of the defect or condition alleged, (2) the lack of a causal relationship between the injury and the defect or condition charged, (3) the nonexistence of an unduly dangerous situation, or (4) want of knowledge (or of grounds to realize) the danger.»