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Establishing causation is often more difficult than it seems. You're drawing a particular arrow of causation here: kids talking about or joking about depression or EDs -> kids actually suffering from depression or EDs. How do you know the arrow of causation isn't the other way around? Or that there isn't a third factor that's causing both?



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