You make a good general point, yet my formulation is meant indeed to indicate mediation, not causation. “B mediates the relation between A and C” can be less stuffily expressed as “A relates to C because of B”. This does not imply that B causes C.https://go.nature.com/2O8EtCC
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Even your wording, "because of B" I would generally interpret as causal, but it could be taken not to be. But pretty much every normal reader will take it as causal I would think.
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Controlling for sex chromosome type genetic males perform no better than....
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Systematizing may be a necessary condition for math ability. The talent called "math ability" may disappear if the talent systematizing is not there - like water disappears if you take away it's oxygen atom.
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Gender and maths, no? The mediator between sex and maths is surely going to be some kind of weird porn involving really complicated formulae and unexpected angles.
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