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by mycelium 2840 days ago
there are whole other approaches to the problem... which are extremely successful in practice, with real observational data sets.

I'm going to echo my sibling commenter, would love to hear it if you have any pointers on where to start reading.

I'm a software engineer but data work comes up all the damn time. Seeing coworkers approach causality in a hand-wavy way without knowing a more rigorous approach to suggest is frustrating! I had hoped Pearl's book was exactly that.

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See my response to the other comment, < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18002046 >.