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The ever-growing dispersion, which begged Galton for a counterforce, should never have been there in the first place.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
Humans must have some compact representation of the information needed in their brains, as well as an effective procedure to interpret each question properly and extract the right answer from the stored representation.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
There are no arrows leading into X, therefore no back-door paths. We don’t need to control for anything.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
imagining and comparing the consequences of several hunting strategies.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
Intervention ranks higher than association because it involves not just seeing but changing what
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
statistics became a model-blind data-reduction enterprise,
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
we have to teach the computer how to selectively break the rules of logic.
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
are completely unrelated to one another
Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie • The Book of Why
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