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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.
"Why?"
"I'll tell you when you've finished reading 'Causality'"