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  2. Correlation does not imply causation - Wikipedia

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    Reverse causation or reverse causality or wrong direction is an informal fallacy of questionable cause where cause and effect are reversed. The cause is said to be the effect and vice versa. Example 1 The faster that windmills are observed to rotate, the more wind is observed. Therefore, wind is caused by the rotation of windmills.

  3. Mill's methods - Wikipedia

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    Therefore A is the cause, or the effect, or a part of the cause of w. As an example of the method of difference, consider two similar countries. Country A has a centre-right government, a unitary system and was a former colony. Country B has a centre-right government, a unitary system but was never a colony.

  4. Causal inference - Wikipedia

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    Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main difference between causal inference and inference of association is that causal inference analyzes the response of an effect variable when a cause of the effect variable is changed.

  5. The Bedford Reader - Wikipedia

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    The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem. It is divided into eleven sections by the various methods of development: narration , description, example, comparison and contrast , analysis, process analysis , classification , cause and effect , definition , argument and persuasion , along ...

  6. Five whys - Wikipedia

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    The artificial depth of the fifth why is unlikely to correlate with the root cause. The five whys is based on a misguided reuse of a strategy to understand why new features should be added to products, not a root cause analysis. To avoid these issues, Card suggested instead using other root cause analysis tools such as fishbone or lovebug diagrams.

  7. Causal research - Wikipedia

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    Causal research, is the investigation of (research into) cause-relationships. [1] [2] [3] To determine causality, variation in the variable presumed to influence the difference in another variable(s) must be detected, and then the variations from the other variable(s) must be calculated (s).

  8. Compensation (essay) - Wikipedia

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    The essay addresses the topic of karma or cause and effect. Emerson contends that everywhere in nature there is dualism. Dualism is present within us because it balances life instead of having excess to destroy. Opposites like action/reaction, day/night, up/down, even/odd and spirit/matter are used to balance the universe.

  9. Cambridge Assessment English - Wikipedia

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    Cambridge Assessment English or Cambridge English develops and produces Cambridge English Qualifications and the International English Language Testing System ().The organisation contributed to the development of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), the standard used around the world to benchmark language skills, [2] and its qualifications and tests are aligned with ...