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davdittrich.economicscience.net
via Judea Pearl:

Correction to #Bookofwhy: The concept of a controlled clinical trial was first described in 1662 by Jan Baptist van Helmont (not J. Lind, 1747) who wrote: "Let us take out of the Hospitals… 500 poor People, that have fevers or Pleuritis. Let us divide them in Halfes, let … 1/2
February 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM
neurostats.org
A little bit of history from #ENAR1952 + what @yudapearl said he missed adding in #BookOfWhy

#MLSky #CausalSky #Statsky

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Sewall Wright and John Tukey on Path Analysis in 1952
Papers from a symposium at The Biometrics Society (ENAR) Conference in 1952 at Iowa State College; Relevant to the history of causal inference.
substack.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:10 PM
tenanatc.bsky.social
Forgot to add #BookOfWhy
February 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
timmitra.bsky.social
Ok Boomer
Episode 276
#iOS13 #DigitalDarkroom #WeWork #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #DadJokes #iOS14 #iPhoneSmartBatteryCase #SearchAPI #EatonCentre #AppleStore. Picks: #SwiftFoundation #SwiftUIViews #BookOfWhy
https://mtjc.fireside.fm/276
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM
tkaiser.science
Methodology.
Please alert me to errors and omissions.
https://econtwitter.net/@nickchk/109684699896743609 (2/2)
Nick HK (@nickchk@econtwitter.net)
RT @yudapearl For readers who saw Nick Huntington-Klein's review of #Bookofwhy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350178X.2022.2088085 and asked what I have to say about it, I've now posted my comments here: https://ucla.in/3ICM1x7 and sent it to Journal of Economic Methodology. Please alert me to errors and omissions.
econtwitter.net
November 3, 2024 at 10:21 PM
tkaiser.science
RT @nickchk@econtwitter.net
RT yudapearl
For readers who saw Nick Huntington-Klein's review of #Bookofwhy:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1350178X.2022.2088085
and asked what I have to say about it,
I've now posted my comments here: https://ucla.in/3ICM1x7
and sent it...
November 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM
yabookscentral.bsky.social
#kidlit #bookreview WHY DO ROOSTERS CROW EARLY IN THE MORNING is at YABC!
yabookscentral.com/kid-review-w...
#roosters #farmanimals #nonfiction #bookofwhy
May 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Tim Maudlin reviews (largely favorably) Judea Pearl @yudapearl's #BookofWhy in The Boston Review @BostonReview. "The why of the world must be deciphered if we are to understand the how of successful action."
https://bostonreview.net/science-nature/tim-maudlin-why-world
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bostonreview.net
September 4, 2019 at 6:21 PM
hypv.bsky.social
okay but also i stepped onto twitter to impotently shout about cop city and i'm finding some Good Content. (for context, this is to justify the claim that "the mathematics used by physicists is insufficient for capturing the problems that arise in other sciences, and perhaps even in Physics itself")
twoot by @yudapearl: The mathematics of equations, as well as the mathematics of statistics cannot capture the causal asymmetries we find many physical phenomena, for example, that the atmospheric pressure determines the barometer reading, not the other way around. See #Bookofwhy p. 3., alsohttps://tinyurl.com/ywj2c47w another tweet by judea pearl: In my podcast with Sean Carroll tinyurl.com/ywj2c47w I argued that, since the equality sign is symmetric, no matter how many equations you write, the relation between the at. pressure and the barometer reading will remain symmetric. A new mathematics is needed to capture the asymmetry associated with "assignment".
September 5, 2023 at 5:37 PM
steven-oliver.bsky.social
OK got to the end of #Bookofwhy #epibookclub
Made me think of Rose & Barker's epi motto:
"manus sordidae, mens pura"

Took my mind through the washer (!!), but reminded me that dealing with the mucky- handedness of epidemiology is at least half the fun.
November 18, 2024 at 8:18 PM