"variable" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The misleading correlation between two variables is produced through the operation of a third causal variable.
- The controlling factor must be internal and not nutrients or sunlight acting as causal exogenous variables.
- In the classical version, we are manipulable only through threats or appeals; in the positivist it is through the alteration of mechanistic causal variables.
- Good examples of intractable causal variables are those that relate to genetic make-up.
- As we have already seen, he noted that positivist criminology had tended to propose causal variables that were difficult, if not impossible to manipulate.
- I pointed out that in practice determinist theories have always had to acknowledge a low level of predictive power for their causal variables.
- In determinist terms, this is explained by the virtually infinite complexity of different constellations of different causal variables in individual cases.
- This may involve reconceiving the causal variables or theorising that, under certain conditions, the causal processes of one theory interlock with those of other theories.
- High parental religiousness negatively correlated with divorce, this alludes to the fact that religion might be more of a causal variable than a predictor variable.
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