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Re:What does social science have to offer the data industry? by SiempreViernes on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:36AM (#17054523)
The gas law is a equilibrium condition, so if you change one the others must change too. But they don’t change spontaneously, you impose the change from without, so there is no ambiguity: whatever you force to change first will be the cause of the others changing.
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Re:What does social science have to offer the data industry? by nonbel on Saturday May 12, 2018 @11:50AM (#17054602)
Right, the model accounts for all possible "causal routes", turning causality into something subjective.
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