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

'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we can think better.

• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--but Some Don't
• The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
• Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
• Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer
• Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
• Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences: An Introduction
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution