Today's reading

[anna_reads_science]

I'm reading a book review about The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. A book that I got so angry with that I chose to discontinue reading, because That Is Not How We Do Science.

The review, by Candice L. Odgers, can be found here. The most important quote from my perspective is the one below, wherein Odgers effectively accuses Haidt of making the common first year statistics course blunder of confounding correlation with causation.

The plots presented throughout this book will be useful in teaching my students the fundamentals of causal inference, and how to avoid making up stories by simply looking at trend lines.