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- Causal's 1000x Spreadsheet; Performance beyond profiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NW7Z-JHOIA 2 comments
- Causal Inference Book https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/ 27 comments
- Causal AI: the revolution uncovering the ‘why’ of decision-making https://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/23/04/2024/causal-ai-revolution-uncovering-why-decision-making 5 comments technology
- Causal inference as a blind spot of data scientists http://www.dzidas.com/ml/2023/10/15/blind-spot-ds/ 62 comments datascience
- Antipoverty Program: Kids whose mothers were in Head Start when they (the mothers) were kids also see higher educ. attainment, less teen pregn., less criminal activity, & 6-11% higher wages. This second-generation effect is causal, likely due to changed parenting behavior/other noncognitive channels https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/720764 28 comments science
- AMA: Jason Abaluck, an economics professor at Yale best known for work in health economics, Covid policy (masks and vaccines), choice and inattention, and yelling at an old man on Twitter about causal identification None 12 comments economics
- When mass shootings fail to change minds about the causes of violence: How gun beliefs shape causal attributions. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-59632-001 231 comments science
- causal $5k pot 3 way all in on the flop 1-2$ home game. https://gyazo.com/f3cd38e00375427175d5934042e4039d 11 comments poker
- Causal Judgment in the Wild: Evidence from the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cogs.13101 2 comments science
- [D] Causal Language - Do you agree with this? https://twitter.com/cecilejanssens/status/1404477565285408771/photo/1 22 comments statistics
- A study of over 390,000 people has found causal genetic evidence that cardio health – as reflected in blood pressure and heart rate – influences coffee consumption https://www.unisa.edu.au/media-centre/releases/2021/espresso-latte-or-decaf--genetic-code-drives-your-desire-for-coffee/ 21 comments science
- The Causal Relationship between Eating Animals and Viral Epidemics. Cross-species viral epidemics could be significantly reduced by restricting wildlife trade and eating a more plant-based diet. https://www.karger.com/article/fulltext/511192 27 comments science
- I need help with granger causality test: NA/NaN/Inf in 'x' https://www.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/mi5i7v/i_need_help_with_granger_causality_test_nananinf/ 4 comments rstats
- Evidence Supports a Causal Model for Vitamin D in COVID-19 Outcomes https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20087965v1 9 comments science
- "Causal evidence supporting the proposal that dopamine transients function as temporal difference prediction errors", Maes et al 2020 https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2020-maes.pdf 5 comments cogsci
- Psychedelic drugs produce enduring increases in people’s sense of being connected to nature, suggests a new study (n=654), which provides evidence for a causal link between psychedelic use and nature relatedness. https://www.psypost.org/2020/01/new-study-finds-psychedelic-drugs-result-in-lasting-increases-in-nature-relatedness-55173 118 comments science
- For the first time, researchers at UCLA have shown a causal link between print media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events and increases in firearm acquisition, particularly in states with the least restrictive gun laws http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/news-coverage-of-gun-control-policy-linked-to-increase-in-gun-purchases 29 comments science
- The causal influence of brain size on human intelligence: Evidence from within-family phenotypic associations and GWAS modeling https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0160289618301703 8 comments science
- Study provides evidence that exposure to T. gondii might be a contributing causal factor for developing schizophrenia and that exposure to CMV might be a contributing causal factor for developing serious psychiatric disorders. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/s0889159118306998?via%3Dihub 14 comments science
- Social media use increases depression and loneliness - In the first experimental study of Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram use, a University of Pennsylvania psychologist showed a causal link between time spent on the platforms and decreased well-being https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-11/uop-smu110818.php 273 comments science
- Is human consciousness the end of the causal chain? https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/95oftj/is_human_consciousness_the_end_of_the_causal_chain/ 5 comments philosophy
- Depression and Vitamin D Deficiency: Causality, Assessment, and Clinical Practice Implications http://www.jneuropsychiatry.org/abstract/depression-and-vitamin-d-deficiency-causality-assessment-and-clinical-practice-implications-12051.html 18 comments science
- Has there been a battle in the past century where one side had little to no causalities? https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/6qznxw/has_there_been_a_battle_in_the_past_century_where/ 38 comments history
- Causal relationship between obesity and serum testosterone status in men: A bi-directional mendelian randomization analysis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28448539 4 comments science
- Why doesn't FTL quantum tunneling violate causality? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/5wx0z5/why_doesnt_ftl_quantum_tunneling_violate_causality/ 31 comments askscience
- Inferring causality from arbitrary data? https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/4xyqvr/inferring_causality_from_arbitrary_data/ 3 comments artificial
- Methodological review shows that studies that use proper causal order methods find no link between gun ownership and crime rates, and no link between gun ownership and homicide rates. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270825500_the_impact_of_gun_ownership_rates_on_crime_rates_a_methodological_review_of_the_evidence 15 comments science
- Coz: Finding code that counts with causal profiling http://blog.acolyer.org/2015/10/14/coz-finding-code-that-counts-with-causal-profling/ 3 comments programming
- Link Between C-Section Birth and Autism Non-Causal, Study Finds http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2323630 13 comments science
- Rocket Philosophy: Why a "Vertical" Causal Series Requires a First Cause http://rocketphilosophy.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-vertical-causal-series-requires.html 11 comments philosophy
- Maternal depression and antidepressant use correlated to autism symptoms when children are exposed in utero, but link is not causal. http://www.truthlyapp.com/truths/594-antidepressant-use-during-pregnancy-intensifies-behavioral-symptoms-in-children-with-autism 7 comments science
- Is it possible that backward causality is an actual feature of our universe? | Philosophy Walk http://philosophywalk.com/backward-causality/ 32 comments philosophy
- Using the Aesop's Fable Paradigm to Investigate Causal Understanding of Water Displacement by New Caledonian Crows (2014) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0092895 4 comments cogsci
- "A total of 68 shops, 7 hotels and 35 vehicles have been damaged during the untoward incident and 3 causalities have been reported so far (in the communal violence in Kishtwar district)," http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/jandk/communal-clashes-claim-three-lives-in-kishtwar-district-govt/article1-1106937.aspx?hts0021 5 comments india
- X-Post from r/Science, German researchers demonstrate causal link between moral erosion and markets by asking subjects to take money for killing mice. http://phys.org/news/2013-05-causal-evidence-affect-moral-values.html 15 comments philosophy
- In this episode of gun crazed America: "Mass causality" incident at Brookfield Square Mall in Wisconsin http://www.wisn.com/news/shooting-reported-near-brookfield-square-mall/-/9373668/17074464/-/jy6psm/-/index.html#ixzz29xcixitr 22 comments politics
- More Causalities of This War - Report: Mental health of U.S. soldiers in a freefall http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/report-mental-health-of-u-s-soldiers-in-a-freefall 5 comments reddit.com
- Any arguments for taking one box in Newcomb's Problem that don't rely on a denial of causality? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcomb's_problem 27 comments philosophy
- Another causality of the drug war: People smoke dangerous chemicals because they can't find weed http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100304/sc_livescience/fakeweedrealdrugk2causinghallucinationsinteens;_ylt=alcrdlg.qdniszosd22s9ccs0nue;_ylu=x3odmtrymwjzzdj1bgfzc2v0a2xpdmvzy2llbmnllziwmtawmza0l2zha2v3zwvkcmvhbgrydwdrmmnhdxnpbmdoywxsdwnpbmf0aw9uc2ludgvlbnmey2nvzgudbw9zdhbvchvsyxiey3bvcwm5bhbvcwm2bhb0a2hvbwvfy29rzqrzzwmdew5fagvhzgxpbmvfbglzdarzbgsdazjmywtld2vlzgnh 7 comments politics
- I always read about political scandals on Reddit before they get big. Correlation or Causality? What do you think? http://reddit.com/info/1hm8e/comments 6 comments reddit.com