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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

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The Book of Why

Written by: Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
Narrated by: Mel Foster
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How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world

"Correlation does not imply causation". This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades and has led to a virtual prohibition on causal talk. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality - the study of cause and effect - on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet, and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: It lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.

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©2018 Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved Science Social Sciences
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Being a proponent of causality and working with causal models and inference for a while, it was a nice change of pace to learn more about the work of the master written for the general audience. Although the book is full of technical details, formulae, and diagrams that might discourage laymen, it keeps the technical discussion nice and pithy except in the 3 chapters, - 'Beyond Adjustment: The Conquest of Mount Intervention', 'Counterfactuals: Mining Worlds That Could Have Been' and 'Mediation: The Search for a Mechanism'.

Technical yet close to my heart

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you have to constantly refer to diagrams defeating the purpose of buying an audio book.

the author has some good examples of how causation diagrams are useful but there's nothing new.

not a good audio book, although great content

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This is a great book on cause and effect but as a listener, you would end up struggling connecting the content with the supporting graphs. I generally listen to books while I drive and it is practically impossible for me to cross-refer the diagrams while I drive. This book, although great book with great research is not fit to be listened but read in physical form.

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