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I'd guess there's not much cause for it among computer science people. I've noticed this in the past: empirical disciplines are better at this stuff. Still, I
by hkt 6y ago
I'd guess there's not much cause for it among computer science people. I've noticed this in the past: empirical disciplines are better at this stuff.
Still, I can't quite work out if a biology degree would cause somebody to understand it better..
- oehtXRwMkIs 6y agoIn my experience, most empirical majors beat you over the head with the chanting of "correlation does not imply causation" pretty much every term. It's too bad that it's one of those things that's not naturally intuitive to people.
- notafraudster 6y agoI mean one of the two dominant frameworks for causal inference is Judea Pearl's directed acyclic graphs / do-calculus, and Pearl is surely a computer scientist.