The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

‘Correlation is not causation.’ How many times did you hear that phrase during your undergraduate degree? How many times have you repeated it to students and colleagues since? If your experience was anything like mine, sit back and prepare to be scandalised as Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie flip the old adage on its head to reveal how causality – the study of cause and effect – has effectively killed the old taboo on causation and established it as a legitimate scientific tool for answering the question ‘why?’