predictable impasse Image by Cedric Favero via Flickr My undignified reply to Andrew Gelmans's take on Causality and Statistical Learning http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/03/causality_and_s.html follow-up here: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010/03/no_comment.html The causality people and the statistics people are talking past each other, your [Andrew Gelman's] 12 page magnum opus included. Point 0) Sense of responsibility → decision