Another biological example (antibiotic resistance-conferring plasmids) of vertical transmission causing friendliness http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141010/ncomms6208/full/ncomms6208.html …
@GrumplessGrinch Pearl’s thing is not “wrong,” but is applicable only in limited, highly-controlled circumstances.
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@GrumplessGrinch Also, it doesn’t correspond to ordinary-person understanding of causality (only statistician’s meaning; not same). -
@GrumplessGrinch It assumes you have a small, fixed, perfectly-defined set of variables, and only a subset of possible interactions between. - 4 more replies
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