Michael Hayes

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consider again the causal fork A ← B → C, in which we proclaimed the correlation between A and C to be spurious. We can verify this by an experiment in which we wiggle A and find no correlation between A and C. But we can do better. We can ask the diagram to emulate the experiment and tell us if any conditioning operation can reproduce the correlation that would prevail in the experiment.
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Penguin Science)
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