Cumulative causation is also known as circular cumulative causation. This is a theory that Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish economist, developed. The first systemic application of the cumulative causation ...

Causation and correlation may sound alike but are very different. The former means the root of subsequent events, while the latter refers to an actual or apparent relationship between trends in which ...

A comment posted by a reader on a recent post reprimanded me for suggesting that marijuana caused relationships to go bad. In this instance the reader was mistaken, as I had specifically used the word ...