cause and effect

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Because this was an observational study, it cannot prove cause and effect.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

The study is cross-sectional, which means it cannot determine cause and effect and may be influenced by confounding factors or reverse causation.

From Science Daily • Apr. 13, 2026

But 34 years later, Sims and Sargent would share in the 2011 economics Nobel for “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

As we watch his experiments, we first see and then feel their reactions in recursive proof of cause and effect.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond