When you grow up, you will understand.” And he continues, “I am not dismissing your gurus, but a spade is a spade. My path coefficients are not correlations. They are something totally different: causal effects.” Imagine that you are in kindergarten, and your friends mock you for believing that 3 + 4 = 7, when everybody knows that 3 + 4 = 8. Then imagine going to your teacher for help and hearing her say, too, that 3 + 4 = 8. Would you not go home and ask yourself if perhaps there was something wrong with the way you were thinking? Even the strongest man would start to waver in his
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Exactly, Wright., and as so Judea Pearl, appear to be men of integrity and conviction, who put their mind to good use.
