Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 26 February 2010 07:26:51PM 3 points [-]

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?

Comment author: Morthrod 26 February 2010 10:55:59PM 4 points [-]

Yes, that would be better.