Describe the four main components necessary to demonstrate causality?

What will be an ideal response?


Answer:
• Correlation—causal factors and the events or things to be explained should accompany one another
• Temporal order—causal factors must be temporarily prior to the event or things they explain
• Non-spurious—Associations between a hypothetical causal factor and the events or things must not be due to other factors
• Logical basis—Sound reasoning for proposed theory or causal relationship

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