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#MeToo shows power of social movements
Study finds that it became a force for change in behaviour
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Ro'ee Levy and Martin Mattsson For The Straits Times
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Q: Can social movements change behaviour or are they merely reflections of changes in society?
A: Social scientists often study whether two phenomena are linked by causation, where one affects the other, or correlation, where they just tend to go together. Economists are especially interested in quantifying causal effects and the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics was awarded for "the analysis of causal relationships".
