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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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May 27, 2020
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Book Club 2020
Why we're reading this
To think in cause and effect is in the human nature, yet science seems to distrust the notion completely.…more

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David Schwan
Aug 12, 2023 rated it really liked it
Started this a while back and did not have time to get back to it until recently. Not an easy read, this book introduces the idea of Causality and why Causality has been reviled by statisticians for some time. We've heard the correlation is not causation, but there are clearly things that are caused by something. Statistics implies no causality, and the authors show us how causality helps us understad how things work. ...more
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