Sentences with phrase «know about causation»

But, here is a big data nerd caution: even though there seems to be a correlation, we don't know about causation!

Not exact matches

But briefly, it is this: «orthodox» scientific uneasiness about the role of purpose or final causation in planetary evolution has its grounds partly in the fact that over the centuries most people who have tried to describe the role of purpose on Earth haven't known «what» they were talking about.

The proper interpretation of Lamarckian notions in genetics thus depends fully on knowing «what» we are talking about: all new patterns of efficient causation in animal bodies can be traced to some occasions» subjective aims.

It came up at christmas dinner; at one point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..

I'm happy to know that the study of allergy causation are still happening, and that we're starting to understand more about how and why they happen.

Well the only thing that makes me suspicious about drawing conclusions from all of these nations where the people have a vegan or primarily vegan diet, is that I have done some research that claims the height can arise from genetics, as well as if a person is receiving enough food (now whether or not these studies went off of correlation and did not test actual causation, I do not know).

One thing to know about statistics is that correlation isn't the same as causation.

Basically it is what we do know about the distribution, not what we don't know (very rare wings) that tells us that we don't get to 100 % causation.

As we know it is about the degree of anthropogenic causation.

I know that there also studies that show there is some coralation between vaccinations and increases in autism, I am not saying that's causation but there are many doctors and people knowledgeable about autism that would disagree with you, so yes it is worth discussion.

I believe that what I've written below is a good enough summary, for now, of what practitioners in Canada's common law jurisdictions need to know about the effect of Clements v Clements, 2012 SCC 32 on the manner in which causation is to be proved in negligence actions.

Those of us who need to know such things know that the SCC granted leave to appeal in Clements v Clements 2011 CanLII 36004 (from 2010 BCCA 581) where the issue will be the meaning of the Canadian material - contribution doctrine (and maybe some other things about proof of causation in Canadian tort law should the Court deign to go there.)

A former professor and a student at Charlotte School of Law should know something about causation, and so they have sued the American Bar Association for their problems at the law school.

The Fifth Circuit held that the press release in question was not sufficient to satisfy the requirements to establish loss causation because «although the stock price dropped dramatically on the day of the 1 August 2006 press release, no new facts concerning Cyberonics» stock - option accounting were disclosed in that release which demonstrated that the «truth became known» about Cyberonics» challenged financial statements.»

Kellie, any thoughts on preparing a summary of whatever evidence is available from Factor Analysis, as opposed to simply talking about simple correlations which don't of course — as you'd know — tell us much about actual causation of the differences?