Both causation and covariation manifest themselves as associations. Just because some features drive the black-box predictions doesn’t mean changing their values will actually change the outcome in real life. Kinda like that old joke — nobody ever promised to feed the masses in the communist future.
Both causation and covariation manifest themselves as associations. Just because some features drive the black-box predictions doesn’t mean changing their values will actually change the outcome in real life. Kinda like that old joke — nobody ever promised to feed the masses in the communist future.
@soboleffspaces And then there’s the case where causation doesn’t manifest into association