[chewyshine]

Judea Pearl is tough going for me. I've never met him but he comes across as arrogant and condescending through his writing. I also find his writing very tough to follow. Even so, his Do-calculus is a valuable perspective on causal inference. Dawid is my go to source for clear exposition of causal concepts. Hard to find a clearer thinker and better writer in this area.

[dfan]

I agree that this article came off as a bit condescending.

Pearl has a more general-audience book coming out this year coauthored with Dana Mackenzie called The Book of Why: The Science of Cause and Effect. I'm hoping that it will be a more gentle introduction to the topic. I'll check out Dawid in the meantime.

[tr1ckst3r]

can you clarify what Dawid you're referring to? The one who authored https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/research/pdfs/rr279.pdf ?