Lecture 14: Causality

MIT 14.310x Data Analysis for Social Scientists, Spring 2023
Instructor: Esther Duflo

In this video, Esther Duflo explains causality, including different ways to model causality. She then moves on to discuss causality and randomized control trials.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[MrLeocars]

Intro: 0:00
Representing Causality (DAG): 11:00
Using DAGs: 19:41
Regression Equations: 21:40
Potential Outcome Framework: 29:41
Stable Unit Treatment Value Assumption (SUTVA): 43:44
The selection problem: 52:36

[bumingchannel]

you have an extraordinary way of teaching

[chaowu]

I totally agree with the remarks on 20:26 As a side, I personally feel Rubin's causal model is a more clean way of defining causality.

[bailahie]

Hey Miss Dr Sympathetic is online again ! 🙏

[andersaxelson]

I see she's picked up a Nobel Prize for her efforts. As you do.

[BuckSandos]

Miracle happens by the causality judgement and engineering in this.Its really a high materialistic phenomena we perceive as the days passed.

[tedwashburn]

These situations are too difficult for me to understand. I’m still trying to understand whether the electron goes through the top slit, the bottom slit, or both. I’m comfortable with ruling out neither (I think).

[uthoshantm]

None of this is taken into account by politicians or youtubers that correlate race with crime rate correctly, and cleverly let the audience draw the "obvious" conclusion by implicitly assuming causality.

[AbdulManan-zgct]

Causality refers to the relationship between cause and effect, where one event (the cause) leads to another event (the effect). It's a fundamental concept in philosophy, science, and everyday reasoning.

[JavierBonillaC]

Every question is a causal question. Hume style.

[jean-marcknight]

Un accent français à couper au couteau 😉

[Diego-tmdj]

Here in Europe we waiting the Trump's wall, where is that???? 😂😂😂😂

[ahmadalarabi]

What causality about slaughing in Gaza ! I do not listen usual at your f. Causality 😂

[suindude]

Causal effects are inevitable in the world.In some rational cases we try to find out the causal effects as well as irrationality with hardening consequential internal vibration.We look at the descriptive way how causal the matter is.Thus the view always gets cleared in athe cases of causality.
Causality as the Decision making process it's a Science, thus decision making is never so easy we think of.

[suindude]

Here in case of one causality I practiced the convergence relationship in analysis and checked the bivariate relationship qualitatively.All multivariate here is moving in the different direction it seems, in Financial matter health hazard hence mortality is one factor that could be controlled, the education and the turmoil in causal distribution over the timespan could be calculatedwith enough proponent.Thus may be a great measure on health will be a great minimisation in result as the propensity to study may be the first observant then the other.
Less causal needs a high order treatment from all positive sides.

[suindude]

Miracle happens by the causality judgement and engineering in this.Its really a high materialistic phenomena we perceive as the days passed.

[terrapinalive]

My God I cannot understand her English.French speakers of English are known to pronounce English as if they didn't care whether they are making a mistake or not