All three appearances of "causa" are in the following paragraph but I don't know what the relevance of that is. I am not sure if it was intended as criticism or praise. "Our results suggest that the relationship between exposure and behavior may be causal in nature, because we controlled for teens' previous sexual experience, as well as factors like parental monitoring, religiosity, and deviance; however, our correlational data do not allow us to make causal inferences with certainty. If the relationship is causal, listening to music with degrading sexual content may have important public health and other societal consequences, because those who initiate sex early have more STDs and unplanned pregnancies.5 It is important to point out, however, that at the time of the third survey, about half of our sample had become legal adults (18-20 years); initiation of intercourse in this group would not be considered early according to US norms and might be considered healthy."
"Causa" as a search term misses other ways of communicating causal inference. Searching for "influence," for example, hits the following: "This suggests quite strongly that the influence of sexual music content on teens' sexual development is specific to content that is sexually degrading." A search for "affect" will bring up, "Despite the fact that degrading sexual lyrics are particularly demeaning in their treatment of women, they affect adolescent boys and girls similarly." They do, however, spend multiple paragraphs in the discussion talking about possible alternative explanations of the results. Rick Dr. Rick Froman Psychology Department Box 3055 John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 (479) 524-7295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart" - Ulysses Everett McGill ________________________________ From: David Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/7/2006 10:44 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: Theatrical irony: Study published in Pediatrics Today On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Stephen Black went: > The study is on-line at > <http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/118/2/e430> > and I think it's available to all. > > It carries the standard disclaimer buried in the Discussion, to wit: > > "Our results suggest that the relationship between exposure and > behavior may be causal in nature... however, our correlational data > do not allow us to make causal inferences with certainty. " I noticed that, and then I noticed that the text string "causa" (as in "causal" or "causation") appears nowhere else in the paper. --David Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=english>
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