khafra comments on Several Topics that May or May Not deserve their own Post - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 29 November 2011 02:53:16PM 1 point [-]

Is it possible/valuable to tackle the question of causality versus correlation versus coincidence with a young child? I think people are built to see causality in an agent-oriented way; explaining a more Judea Pearl-ish view of causality might be too complicated for most kids, but if it isn't it could provide a way of explaining why some answers to "why" are unsatisfying to their intuition.

Comment author: dlthomas 29 November 2011 05:54:56PM 3 points [-]

"Why?"

"I'll tell you when you've finished reading 'Causality'"