On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Rick Froman went:
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.
I intended it as criticism of a popular press that wrings causation from a paper whose only mention of causation is in the context of saying that one can't infer causation. But now I take it back:
"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."
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