Understanding Dollar Drain: Causes, Effects, and Examples

Discover the impact of dollar drain on economies, its causes, and examples such as the Asian Financial Crisis. Learn how ...
Science Daily

Using mathematics to better understand cause and effect

A new method for determining causality gives scientists a more holistic view of the causal role that contributing factors play within just about any system. Cause and effect. We understand this ...
Medical News Today

Self-fulfilling prophecy: Examples and impact

A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person’s expectations about a situation come true due to changes in their own behavior. It is a psychological phenomenon that can play a role in mental health.
STAT

How to tease out what’s causation and what’s just correlation

Kwon is a Ph.D. student in health policy at Harvard University. Stuart is professor and chair in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. It is human ...
Forbes

Cybersecurity’s Blind Spot: Why Cause-And-Effect Matters More Than The Breach

Whenever news breaks about a cyberattack, the spotlight tends to fall on the wrong place. Headlines fixate on who the attackers were, what vulnerability they used or which system failed. These details ...
BMJ

Physical activity trajectories and accumulation over adulthood and their associations with all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objective To understand the associations of trajectories and accumulation of physical activity (PA) over adulthood with all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer mortality. Design Systematic ...