Judea Pearl3.946,603 ratings713 reviewsWant to ReadRate this bookHow the study of causality revolutionized science and the world"Correlation does not imply causation." This mantra has been invoked by scientists for decades. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed causality--the study of cause and effect--on a firm scientific basis. His work explains how we can know easy things, like whether it was rain or a sprinkler that made a sidewalk wet; and how to answer hard questions, like whether a drug cured an illness. Pearl's work enables us to know not just whether one thing causes another: it lets us explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It shows us the essence of human thought and key to artificial intelligence. Anyone who wants to understand either needs The Book of Why.GenresScienceNonfictionPhilosophyArtificial IntelligenceMathematicsPsychologyComputer Science ...moreUnknown Binding

First published January 1, 2018

Book details & editions3838 people are currently reading30169 people want to readAbout the authorJudea Pearl43 books266 followersFollowFollowJudea Pearl (Hebrew: יהודה פרל) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks.