Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes (Paperback)

Samantha Kleinberg

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Can drinking coffee help people live longer? What makes a stock’s price go up? Why did you get the flu? Causal questions like these arise on a regular basis, but most people likely have not thought deeply about how to answer them.

This book helps you think about causality in a structured way: What is a cause, what are causes good for, and what is compelling evidence of causality? Author Samantha Kleinberg shows you how to develop a set of tools for thinking more critically about causes. You’ll learn how to question claims, identify causes, make decisions based on causal information, and verify causes through further tests.

Whether it’s figuring out what data you need, or understanding that the way you collect and prepare data affects the conclusions you can draw from it, Why will help you sharpen your causal inference skills.

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喝咖啡能延長人壽嗎?股票價格是如何上漲的?你為什麼會感冒?這些因果問題經常出現,但大多數人可能沒有深入思考如何回答它們。

這本書以結構化的方式幫助你思考因果關係:什麼是原因,原因有什麼用處,以及什麼是令人信服的因果證據?作者Samantha Kleinberg向你展示如何發展一套工具,更加批判地思考原因。你將學習如何質疑主張,辨識原因,根據因果信息做出決策,並通過進一步的測試驗證原因。

無論是弄清楚你需要什麼數據,還是了解你收集和準備數據的方式如何影響你從中得出的結論,這本書都將幫助你提升因果推斷能力。