Word: causalism
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...issue of whether welfare in fact encourages illegitimate births has been hotly debated. Most studies show there is no direct causal relationship. But the AFDC program, by its very nature, inevitably provides some economic incentives for the creation of single-parent families. It offers a steady (though meager) income to young women if they decide to have children they cannot support. It may encourage irresponsible men to father children without worrying how to provide for them. And it can produce a situation where a father with a low-paying job may feel forced to leave home so that his children...
...wafers experienced a miscarriage rate of 39%, vs. the national average of roughly 20%. Even though it has long allowed pregnant workers to transfer from such areas, Digital says, its study is inconclusive. "We have the data," says Spokesman Jeff Gibson, "but we have no way of drawing any causal inferences from them...
...result of the major brain damage accrued from an improper diet of leopard face and dinosaur crispitos, Early Man believed that the Hiss Joke was the end all. The current mainstream hypothesis is that "fine herbs" on our chicken is the causal element today, but regardless of the roots a cure must be found. It is inconceivable to continue life with hisses erupting over any professor's slightest mention of Yale, or that there might me a modicum of work due at any time for the class...
...innocent, it follows that there should be nothing wrong with violating other liberties of those who are not guilty of wrongdoing. Surely, then, no harm will be done if the police illegally search someone's house--that person has nothing to hide. Ed Meese believes there is a causal connection between pornography and violent crime. Perhaps federal employees should have their briefcases searched for copies of Penthouse. How could that violate their right to privacy? After all, those right-minded, god-fearing citizens who do not read the stuff should have nothing to fear if they have nothing to hide...
...commission's conclusions were couched amid careful clauses that only partly tempered the strong attack on pornography: the panel stated that there is a causal link between violent pornography and aggressive behavior toward women. Furthermore, it said that exposure to sexually explicit material that is not violent but nevertheless degrades women -- a category that "constitutes somewhere between the predominant and the overwhelming portion of what is currently standard fare heterosexual pornography" -- bears "some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence." The Meese panel's findings are diametrically opposed to those of the 1970 report of the President's Commission...