Sudha Sharma, Oona Maeve Renee Campbell, William Edward Oswald, Dadhi Adhikari, Punya Paudel, Bibek Lal, Loveday Penn-Kekana
Increased utilisation and quality: a focus on inequality and a learning health system approach-explaining Nepal's success in reducing maternal and newborn mortality 2000-2020
BMJ global health
paper considers 5 11yearolds verbal reasoning causality underlying extended dynamic natural processes links various facets statistical thinking continuous processes typically provide perceptually distinct causes effect previous work suggests spatialtemporal analysis ability analyze spatial configurations change time crucial predictor reasoning causal mechanism situations work humean tradition causality long emphasized importance statistical thinking inferring causal links distinct cause effect events assess whether also viable causal thinking continuous processes controlling verbal nonverbal ability two studies n 107 n 124 administered battery covariation probability spatialtemporal causal measures results indicated spatialtemporal analysis best predictor causal thinking across studies statistical thinking supported informed spatialtemporal analysis covariation assessment potentially assists identification variables simple probability judgment potentially assists thinking unseen mechanisms conclude ability find patterns data even widely important causal analysis commonly assumed childhood role play causally linking already distinct events also analyzing causal process underlying extended dynamic events without perceptually distinct components