The Grand Leap
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Causation, Prediction, and Search by Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines (SGS) is an ambitious book. SGS claim to have methods for discovering causal relations based only on empirical data, with no need for subjectmatter knowledge. These methods—which combine graph theory, statistics and computer science—are said to allow quick, virtually automated, conversion of association to causation. The algorithms are held out as superior to methods already in use in the social sciences (regression analysis, path models, factor analysis, hierarchical linear models, and so on). According to SGS, researchers who use these other methods are confused:
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