noncausal
- adjective
- /nɒnˈkɔːzəl/
:
no causal
- Researchers are often wary of noncausal explanations that might mislead interpretations of data.
- noncausal explanation
Examples
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Nevertheless, an observational study such as this one cannot rule out additional biases, particularly selection bias, which may provide a noncausal explanation for the observed association.
Academic text (1995) -
Even though the interventionist account covers only causal explanation, and even if the scope of this article is therefore limited, an important species of explanation is nevertheless discussed, because causal explanations allow controlling, understanding, and manipulating nature, in contrast to some noncausal forms of explanation.
Academic text (2013) -
These explanations are noncausal, covering-law explanations.
Academic text (2013) -
By this noncausal correlation of ability and infertility, the chief reason for declining civilization emerges: the social promotion of the relatively infertile.
Academic text (1991) -
These results argue against the presence of noncausal explanations based on differences in housing quality and sociodemographic context for the chlorpyrifos—neurologic development relationship.
Academic text (2011) -
The point here applies even if "explaining" is understood in the noncausal or statistical sense—that is, that the independent variable explains a major part of the variation in the dependent variable.
Academic text (2013) -
The study revealed several noncausal relationships that did not indicate a direct effect.
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She described the phenomenon as noncausal, meaning that changes in one variable did not lead to changes in another.
Synonyms
A verb that describes an action happening by itself without someone causing it
Antonyms
How Causal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Noncausal breaks into non- meaning 'not' and cause, from the Latin causa meaning 'reason'. So, noncausal describes a link with no 'cause and effect' where one thing does not cause the other.