Rather, athletes require individualised training plans. In acknowledgement of athlete diversity, it is therefore essential to ask the right causal research question in studies examining sports injury ...

For example, as ice cream sales increase ... Scientists then try to find a causal link to explain the connection. If no causal link is known, this remains a correlation. It cannot be ...

The line between correlational and causal PA research is narrow, and confounding and reverse causation may lead to false conclusions. We contend that data must be able to answer a causal question ...