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by andrewjl 2038 days ago
Causation is often treated as a binary outcome in the popular press, more recent attempts at adding nuance to that via statistics aren't much better. Hard to come up with solutions or alternatives but speaking personally I felt humbled at my own paltry understanding when reading this[1] reference.

[1] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-...