cause and effect
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Their experiments focused on a specific scenario, repeated mild brain injury, and used CTE tissue to provide supporting observations rather than direct proof of cause and effect.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 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
The Nobel laureate’s work transformed how central banks understand cause and effect in the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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
