Scott Cunningham | Causal Inference (The Mixtape)Scott Cunningham (Baylor University) discusses the ideas of his book "Causal Inference: The Mixtape". Topics include trusting inference in the absence of counterfactuals and the challenges of apply scientific methods to social phenomena. 

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0:00 - COMING UP...0:35 - What makes it into the mixed tape?7:10 - Coding to learn11:15 - More people are expected to work with data & code12:50 - Design vs program vs estimators20:40 - Causation with zero correlation27:00 - Optimization make everything endogenous28:45 - The hospital example29:30 - Credible scientific discovery vs motivated discovery39:55 - Different meanings of causality43:30 - The impossible counterfactual 47:00 Counterfactual nihilism49:20 Social experiments / Defund the police53:35 - Skepticism about the science of social phenomena1:05:20 - The Italian crime example1:16:30 - Scientific debate