Why did so many Conservative MPs step down at this election?

Given the Conservative Party’s worst electoral collapse in modern history, confirmation bias will begin to dictate that vulnerability was indeed the key motivator prompting Conservative MPs to step down. It is therefore important to assess why so many stood down at this election before an inductive logic retroactively exculpates the consensus. We must test the hypothesis that Conservative MPs stepped down due to the likelihood of loss, examining select data for these parliamentarians and their constituencies. Ultimately, regression analysis found no significant causal or correlative relationship between the tested variables for the group as a whole.