Causation

You have just discovered that your Breast cancer has been misdiagnosed Or the doctor failed to diagnose your Breast cancer altogether and now you Are wondering if you sue your doctor What is one...

So clearly in our example, whether or not you're in a hospital correlated with whether or not you died, but the truth is, the example omitted and important variable, the sickness, the disease...

Let's observe in more detail why the hospital example gives us such a wrong conclusion. We study two variables--in-hospital and dying or passing away. We rightfully observe that these two...

Awhile back I've told you about the Simpson's paradox and it was surprising how easy it was to draw the false conclusion from data. Today I will give you a deep insight of the common...

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Being in a hospital, that effect alone, increases your of dying by a factor of 4. Is it causal statement? It says the hospital causes you to die; much less, it coincides with the fact that you die....

This is a non-trivial question, and the right way to do this is to go through the truth table, which I've drawn over here. There's 3 different things happening. We've taken...

In the past twenty years, I've mediated or arbitrated about 400 medical malpractice cases. I've learned in mediating or arbitrating these cases, a number of important lessons. First,...

Lecture 28, analyzing social interaction. So far, our study of psychology has taught us two facts about human nature. The first is that humans are intelligent creatures. We do not operate merely by...

Let's say of the 40 people in the hospital, 36 were actually sick and passed away, and some were healthy, 4 of them, and they all survived. Let's further assume, for the people at...