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The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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Dull as dishwater, honestly. Whatever interesting content it might contain, I absorbed none of it, because my eyes were going numb reading this. It induced a dissociative fugue state.
A perfectly representative example of the text:
"[Applying this principle to the billiard problem], in order to find the probability of L, given X, we need a quantity that is not available to us from the physics of billiard balls. We need the prior probability of the length L, which is every bit as tough to estimate as our desired, the probability of L, given x. Moreover, this probability will vary significantly from person to person, depending on the given individual's experience with tables of different lengths."
Do you care? Not at all. Neither did I.
A perfectly representative example of the text:
"[Applying this principle to the billiard problem], in order to find the probability of L, given X, we need a quantity that is not available to us from the physics of billiard balls. We need the prior probability of the length L, which is every bit as tough to estimate as our desired, the probability of L, given x. Moreover, this probability will vary significantly from person to person, depending on the given individual's experience with tables of different lengths."
Do you care? Not at all. Neither did I.
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Jan 17, 2023 06:55AM
When the aliens arrive, I hope this author is not put on TV to explain anything. The panic will be worse. Terrific review, Annie.
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Joe wrote: "When the aliens arrive, I hope this author is not put on TV to explain anything. The panic will be worse. Terrific review, Annie."thanks Joe! :)
A lot of people care about everything written in the book. These are deep notions that drive science. If you don't care, fine. That just means you don't like intellectually deep content. But don't impose your preferences on others. The rating you gave wasn't because the book is bad, it was because _you_ didn't like the content, which invalidates your rating. I'd suggest removing the rating so as to not misguide other readers into thinking this is a bad book. Thanks
