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 easiest cause-and-effect sequence imaginable, the policy died, and child poverty rocketed upward.

From Slate

This latest research will likely fail to alter the long-running debate surrounding cannabis, schizophrenia and statistical cause-and-effect relationships.

From Scientific American

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