Why ask why? Forward causal inference and reverse causal questions

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Comparing Random Forest with Logistic Regression for Predicting Class-Imbalanced Civil War Onset Data (2016, unknown): “Often, a researcher is more interested in the “causes of eﬀects” than in the “eﬀects of causes” (Gelman and Imbens 2013).”
Causal mediation analysis in economics: Objectives, assumptions, models (2021, background): “As pointed out by Gelman and Imbens (2013) not only the "e ect of a cause", i.e. the treatment e ect, seems relevant in many problems, but also "the cause of the e ect", i.e. the mechanisms through which the total e ect materializes.”