If negligence can be established, comments need to be
made about causation using the same «but for» test towards the consequences of substandard care.
Not exact matches
I agree with momoya, that it is of little use to
make suppositions
about such mechanisms or sequences of
causation without evidence.
He admitted that correlation is not
causation but pointed out that if the mainstream media could
make such a fuss
about crap research showing an association between induction and autism, his work should be able to get even more attention.
Observational studies of this type have several limitations, the main one being that it is difficult to establish
causation — for example, was it the electronic cigarettes that caused people to stop smoking or was it something else
about the e-cigarette users that
made them more likely to quit?
It's easy to
make faulty inferences
about the direction of
causation.
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).
States differ in ways that
make drawing conclusions
about causation quite troublesome.
Iv» e been reading Bsall postings and they all have a lot of passion for educating children which is what education is supposed to be
about... My personal 2cents worth is this - In social science there is very little that can meet the level of scientifically verifiable
causation and we therefor shouldn't be
making decisions that impact childrens lives based on faulty science.
Yet some of the most frequently repeated claims
made by those engaged in the climate change disinformation campaign have been outright untruths
about such things as the claim that the entire scientific basis for human induced climate change is a hoax or that there is no evidence of human
causation.
More specifically in regard to the question of human
causation, opponents of climate change policies that deny human
causation should be expected to specifically respond to the numerous «foot - print» and «attribution» studies that the international community has relied on to
make conclusions
about human
causation.
E.g. of those abstracts
making a statement
about the quantitative contribution of human activity to the warming, 87 % (65/75) endorsed dominant human
causation.
You want someone to say, «Correlation is not
causation,» or some variant thereof, and then you want someone to
make a point
about sauce for the goose or attribution or whatnot for the rising temperature periods that do correlate, blah - blah - blah.
«The way around this problem is to amend Rule 702 to allow courts to admit educated guesses
about causation, but only when nonpartisan experts, not subject to adversarial bias, are willing to
make such guesses.»
There's nothing
about how
causation plays out in contribution claims that, in principle,
makes material contribution to risk inconsistent.
I did not mention autism, nor did I
make any pronouncements
about «
causation.»
In order to
make informed, intelligent, fair and reasonable decisions
about causation and liability it is often necessary to rely on the scientific expertise of a qualified accident reconstruction expert.
You should not
make any formal statements
about fault,
causation, or your opinion on what happened.
[77] Nonetheless, to
make a finding of
causation based on a robust and pragmatic approach, in my view, it was incumbent on the trial judge to consider and
make findings
about the evidence relevant to the medical issues.
These DVDs will show you how to
make informed decisions
about: claims,
causation development of treatment plans, best practices, management, health promotion, rehabilitation, disability impairment, and return to work.
An argument has been
made — for example, in Lynda M. Collins «
Causation, contribution and Clements: Revisiting the material contribution test in Canadian tort law» (2011), 19 Tort L. Rev. 86 — that there is something inherently uncertain
about vehicle dynamics because (in the scheme of human scientific progress) this subject is relatively new.
First, its study design is cross-sectional and correlational, so inferences
about causation can not be
made.