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HIV/AIDS has devastated many different populations. Efforts to reduce the spread of the disease have often focused on sexual behavior. Many studies in Africa have presumed that awareness of high HIV rates would lead to a change in sexual behavior – the higher the prevalence rate, the fewer risky sexual behaviors should be observed (the dependent variable). Following widespread educational efforts (the independent variable), the actual change in HIV rate showed little to no change. This is an example of

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reverse causality

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Reverse causality is also known as reverse causation is the concept of the cause and the effect where effect precedes the cause in the time and so that the later event in the time affects the earlier event.

The given case is an example of reverse causality in which the independent variable should effect the dependent variable but it is not happening.

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