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January 2, 2012 03:01 pm PST
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Causality becomes increasingly elusive
Espen sez, "This is an excellent essay by Jonah Lehrer on the increasing difficulty of finding direct causation in medical (or, indeed, all) research. Highly readable, though I would have liked to see a little more about how to address this problem (i.e., with network analysis tools)." David Hume referred to causality as the cement [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zmSBz5jlq5c/causality-becomes-increasingly.html
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