What is the definition of historical causation?

Historical causation involves the ability to identify, analyze, and evaluate the relationship among multiple historical causes and effects, distinguishing between those that are long-term and proximate, and among coincident, causation, and correlation.

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affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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