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The causes of an outcome cannot be divided into slices that add up to 100 per cent, so a large effect from one cause does not leave a small remainder for the others.

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  1. Saloni Dattani Researcher at Our World in Data with a PhD in psychiatric genetics
    Finally, I’ll explain a deeper issue with the whole idea: we can’t neatly divide the causes of an outcome into slices that add up to 100%.

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