Statistical Thinking

How does science work? It’s all about clones!

The role of causal inference and statistical reasoning in science

Cassie Kozyrkov
6 min readJul 21, 2022

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Every good scientific experiment that seeks to establish how something works — and not just that it does work — is about making clones.

Huh?

Bear with me.

Image source: Pixabay.

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