Causal Overclaiming in Social Science Is Rising, Nature Study Finds

A Nature Human Behaviour study analyzed about 194,000 social science papers using LLMs, finding that 46% used causal language in titles or abstracts—a share rising since 2000—and suggested LLM-based paper simplification may further amplify causal overclaiming.

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