Book review: The book of Why

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Master student in Quantitative Methods in Education @ UMN

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October 16, 2023

Book review

I just bought my own physical copy of The book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie. In the past, I have read several sections of this book, even whole chapters, but never in a linear and tidy way (this is a constant in many aspects of my life). So, I think that creating a small summary of each chapter with my own word, and making it really informal, can be beneficial to start thinking about cause-effect research. I wonder this can be implemented in a classroom. Also, I need to deeply understand the \(do\) operator so expressions like \(P(L|do(D))\) like the one in the introduction really makes sense.

Chapter 1: The Ladder of causation