We're lucky in this data we have many responses from each person, and so we can look and see, does mind-wandering tend to precede unhappiness, or does unhappiness tend to precede mind-wandering, to get some insight into the causal direction.
Imamo sreće što u ovim podacima imamo mnogo odgovora od svake osobe pa možemo vidjeti prethodi li sanjarenje osjećaju nezadovoljstva, ili nezadovoljstvo prethodi sanjarenju. Tako bismo dobili uvid u uzročno-posljedični tijek.