cause and effect

Example Sentences

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To try and shed light on the cause-and-effect relationship, Australian researchers are recruiting 13- to 16-year-olds for a "Connected Minds Study" to assess how the ban affects their wellbeing.

From Barron's

Clear cause-and-effect situations like this are nearly impossible to recreate in controlled experiments, giving researchers a rare natural experiment.

From Science Daily

In the late 1960s and ’70s, Dr. Schank developed ideas for how to represent in symbols for a computer simple concepts — like people and places, objects and events, cause-and-effect relationships — that humans describe with words.

From New York Times

Hakenbeck and Büntgen note that it would be "problematic to link historic events to climatic conditions in a way that implies a simple cause-and-effect. Nevertheless," they write, "the climatic fluctuations of the period, in particular the dry summers from 420 to 450 CE, would likely have had an impact on both agricultural and pasture carrying capacities, at least in areas that were not directly in the moisture-rich floodplains."

From Salon

You can debate cause-and-effect all day long.

From Seattle Times