Lecture of Professor Judea Pearl “What is Causal Inference”
March 13, 2021
THE SILENT HISTORY OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
Judea Pearl
UCLA
HPASS
Los Angeles, CA
Outline
- The Ubiquity of causal thinking in ethics and science, from ancient times to modernity.
- Why it kept silent till 1920.
- What prevented statisticians, economists, social and health scientists from answering causal questions in their respected fields.
- The causal revolution and its miracles
