and i thought fitness/"f" was a clear example where we could do stats w/o modeling and not really learn much
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correlation between a "nonsense var" and (say) income would be uninteresting bc we'd know it wasn't causal
so when we grant "existence" we're saying "this seems like a good candidate for a node in a causal model"
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if we go from pure descriptive stats to "this exists," we've smuggled in some causal claims under the radar
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