<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>kgwgk</author><text>Also in the recent and upcoming releases in &amp;quot;causality&amp;quot; department: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie)
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;dealbook&amp;#x2F;review-the-book-of-why-examines-the-science-of-cause-and-effect.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2018&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;business&amp;#x2F;dealbook&amp;#x2F;review-...&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Causal Inference Book</title><url>https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>forapurpose</author><text>&amp;gt; Jamie Robins and I are working on a book that provides a cohesive presentation of concepts of, and methods for, causal inference. Much of this material is currently scattered across journals in several disciplines or confined to technical articles. We expect that the book will be of interest to anyone interested in causal inference, e.g., epidemiologists, statisticians, psychologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, computer scientists...&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a bit surprised that there isn&amp;#x27;t already a &amp;quot;cohesive presentation&amp;quot;, both for teaching and as a resource for practitioners. (Of course, that seems to be when books are written, when the need suddenly seems obvious.) Would any scientists, etc. comment on how the topic is currently taught and what reference is used? Or am I misunderstanding the nature of the topic, such as its significance or generality? Has something changed?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Causal Inference Book</title><url>https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inference-book/</url></story>