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    Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 22 Mar 2019
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    Sarah Constantin Retweeted D. Allan Drummond

    YEP. I see weird deficits in causal thinking (and deductive thinking more generally) when I talk to biologists and biotech people who weren't trained in math/physics/CS.https://twitter.com/dallandrummond/status/1108556522467086336 …

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    D. Allan Drummond @dallandrummond
    This bizarre belief that establishing causality requires uncovering the mechanism is one of the most progress-inhibiting misconceptions in science. Establishing causality requires only controlled perturbations — you need not know anything about mechanism. +1 @kph3k pic.twitter.com/lIZ7Eorc4E
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      2. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 22 Mar 2019
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        In the science-fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem", all the "scientist" characters seem to think they can't draw inferences about a system unless they can characterize how every part of the system works. The only character who deduces anything is a cop.

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      3. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 22 Mar 2019
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        Real science is not saying "more research is needed" until every conceivable part of a system is mapped. It's knowing which conclusions you can draw -- and *can't* draw -- from the always limited data available.

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      4. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 22 Mar 2019
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        Sometimes that means you can draw a practical conclusion -- "this intervention improves this outcome" -- without knowing how it works!

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      5. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin 22 Mar 2019
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        Sometimes I wonder if the awesome powers given to us by molecular biology -- genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, etc -- have trained some to believe that biology is like a coloring book where you're not "done" till every piece is colored.

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      2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Mar 2019
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        Replying to @s_r_constantin

        The different understandings of causality in biology and physics have been noted and studied by philosophers of science. (Can point you at things to read if interested.)

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      3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 22 Mar 2019
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        FWIW, I tentatively think biologists are right about biology. To simplify somewhat, the systems are so complex, and the experiments so sloppy, that unless you have a mechanistic understanding, you are probably fooling yourself.

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      2. bob‏ @SkepticalAlpaca 22 Mar 2019
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        This critique of biologists needing mechanism to believe something is totally fair. That’s part of why Mendel was such a badass, and why he was ignored for 40 years until people had better mechanisms that could explain the concept of the gene.

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      3. halvorz ¯\_(ツ)_/¯‏ @halvorz 22 Mar 2019
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        Not sure what mechanisms you're referring to here. At the time Mendelian genetics was rediscovered, the concept of the gene was entirely theoretical. Nobody had any idea what a gene was physically, as far as I know.

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      1. Fate Of Twist‏ @FateOfTwist_ 22 Mar 2019
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        Or maybe that popular mathematization of causality (the map) doesn't actually capture the ordinary human notion of causality (the territory)

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