Rigorous causal inference methods are just now starting to diffuse into the undergraduate curriculum, after gradually becoming part of the mainstream in a lot o

Rigorous causal inference methods are just now starting to diffuse into the undergraduate curriculum, after gradually becoming part of the mainstream in a lot of social science fields. But this is just happening. Judea Pearl is in some respects a little grandiose, but I think he is right to be express shock that it took almost a century to develop to this point, given how long the basic tools of probability and statistics have been fairly mature.