Good point. That sentence structure was a carryover from Finnish, where you can say that reasons cause things.
Would "Any given observation has many different possible causes" be better?
Yes, that would be better.
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Good point. That sentence structure was a carryover from Finnish, where you can say that reasons cause things.
Would "Any given observation has many different possible causes" be better?
Yes, that would be better.