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This video presents the basic idea of the so-called Coleman Boat. Graphics and design by Wasita Witchutraiphob. Voice by Susanna Snell. If you want a longer ...

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Theory, Model, Causal Relations, Causal Mechanisms (Situational, Behavioral, Transformational)

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Students discuss: what is bullshit anyway? Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it. The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington.

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Jon Elster - The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences

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Jon Elster - The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences

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The dangers of excessive ambitions within the social sciences - Jon Elster

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www.iffs.se Part 1: In this lecture Jon Elster diagnoses this flaw and discusses possible remedies. He argues that actual agents are intrinsically less sophisticated than the models assume them to be, and that the various proposals to sustain the models by appealing to "as-if rationality" all fail.

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Gianluca Manzo - Agent-based Modeling and Types of Causality 

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Gianluca Manzo - Agent-based Modeling and Types of Causality 

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Gianluca Manzo - Agent-based Modeling and Types of Causality (IFICC, Santiago 2013)

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In this talk, Gianluca Manzo addresses the question of the extent to which agent-based modeling can be used for causal analysis. In particular, first, he discusses three different understandings of causality and, then, he builds on a specific sociological agent-based model to show that: 1/ agent-based modeling does allow to implement a manipulationist and a generative understanding of causation; 2/ under certain conditions, causal connections established in silico are informative of causal connections in the real world.

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Dr. Thomas Grund SOC20230 Analytical Sociology University College Dublin 2017

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Calling Bullshit 3.1: Correlation and Causation

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Correlations are often used to make claims about causation. Be careful about the direction in which causality does. Example: do food stamps cause poverty? Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.

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The danger of mixing up causality and correlation: Ionica Smeets

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The danger of mixing up causality and correlation: Ionica Smeets

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The danger of mixing up causality and correlation: Ionica Smeets at TEDxDelft

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Charles Tilly interview: causal mechanisms

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Charles Tilly interview: causal mechanisms

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Charles Tilly interview: causal mechanisms

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Part of interview with Charles Tilly by Daniel Little. December 15, 2007 at University of Michigan - Dearborn. Topic: causal mechanisms in historical sociology

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Nancy Cartwright - There are Mechanism, and Then There are Mechanisms

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Nancy Cartwright - There are Mechanism, and Then There are Mechanisms

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Nancy Cartwright - There are Mechanism, and Then There are Mechanisms

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Mechanisms are at centre-stage right now in philosophy of science, especially in discussions of causal explanation and causal inference. For instance Jon Williamson and Frederica Russo argue that experimental and correlational evidence is not enough, evidence for the generating mechanism is required as well for solid causal inference.