The book of why: the new science of cause and effect /
"Everyone has heard the claim, "Correlation does not imply causation." What might sound like a reasonable dictum metastasized in the twentieth century into one of science's biggest obstacles, as a legion of researchers became unwilling to make the claim that one thing could cause...
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New York :
Basic Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The ladder of causation
- From buccaneers to guinea pigs: the genesis of causal inference
- From evidence to causes: Reverend Bayes meets Mr. Holmes
- Confounding and deconfounding: or, slaying the lurking variable
- The smoke-filled debate: clearing the air
- Paradoxes galore!
- Beyond adjustment: the conquest of Mt. Intervention
- Counterfactuals: mining worlds that could have been
- Mediation: the search for a mechanism
- Big data, artificial intelligence, and the big questions.