It is like trying to establish which came first: The chicken or the egg.

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The chicken or the egg situation affects entrepreneurs as well.

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Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?

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The chicken or the egg?

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There are obvious causal questions here, of a particularly grim kind: which came first, the crippled chicken or the broken egg?

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Onge's study may be a step toward answering that "chicken-or-the-egg question" because it included only people of normal weight and therefore eliminated the influence of existing overweight or obesity, says Gina Lundberg, M.

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Randy Stanley, who recently leased a Nissan Leaf and has a bumper sticker declaring, "This machine starves terrorists, " calls it a "chicken-or-the-egg" scenario -- charging stations won't pop up unless there's demand, but some drivers are reluctant to get an electric car until they see more public stations.

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The researchers specifically tried to get to the root of the chicken-or-egg problem -- do children become more aggressive after playing video games or are aggressive kids more attracted to violent videos?

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Some researchers have framed the issue as a chicken-or-egg conundrum, wondering whether pot smoking leads to psychosis or whether underlying psychosis makes one more likely to smoke pot.

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And that presents a chicken-or-egg problem given that high unemployment is the key driver of economy uncertainty, especially among small business owners.

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Because the theory relies on an object that itself has already found a way to grow to the size of Mars, the bow shock idea creates a bit of a chicken or egg problem.

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The outbreak has sparked concern about a possible spike in food prices, but authorities said Monday that the number of slaughtered chickens is a small fraction of the country's overall population and there is no reason for egg or chicken prices to increase.

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The trucking industry calls this the "chicken and egg" problem: which will come first -- LNG trucks or LNG refueling stations?

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The root of the problem is often debated in gender-conscious circles, but it commonly ends in a chicken-or-egg sort of quandary.

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