If it incidentally makes sense does that mean it's not causal?

如果这同样有道理，那意味着没有因果吗？

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It is possible that these links are not causal, but rather covariates of the common factor of family.

这是可能的，这些链接不因果关系，而是家庭共同因素协变量。

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They argued that her causal-sounding claims rested on correlational data, and that she had not adequately accounted for other potential causal factors.

他们认为，她那些听起来像是因果关系的说法是基于相关数据的，并且她没有充分考虑其他潜在的因果因素。

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In many ways, he's not making a causal claim so much.

但他并没有，强力主张因果关系。

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