So identifying the causes of the college dropout crisis matters enormously, and a new book tries to do precisely that.
Identifying the causes of gun violence, however, is easier than finding solutions, the police chiefs present conceded, and better policing will not be enough to solve it.
They shared their scientific research, ranging from identifying the causes of past climate changes, to estimating the risks of the changes we're causing now, to how we can successfully communicate the need to mitigate those risks.
Dr. Gray-Miceli's work focuses on identifying the causes of falls, which might include treatable factors like changes in gait, low blood pressure, declining vision or heart arrhythmias, as well as conditions in the home.
DavidLevine decries the writer's "obvious loathing of the unemployed poor" and argues that Orwell "is more interested in exploiting the poor for their colorful oddities than in identifying the causes of poverty".
"Since the middle of the last century, enormous progress has been made in identifying the causes of cancer, so that more than 50 per cent of cases could be prevented based on current knowledge," he writes, in the report's preface.
Salmon extended Reichenbach's approach, effectively thinking of explanation as identifying the causes of phenomena and, consonant with empiricist scruples, attempting to provide an analysis of causation in terms of statistical relations.
They also use their instinctive flair for identifying the causes of problems and inventing ingenious ways of solving them, as well as their ability to "sell" those solutions clearly and persuasively.
Considering that the pending task — identifying the causes of imbalances and agreeing on the policies to fix them — is much harder than agreeing on basic methodological questions, it is highly doubtful that an action plan can be agreed at the Cannes summit in early November.
One of Richter's earliest interests was identifying the causes of rhythmic spontaneous activity.
