Please submit this form if you would like to to attend our
BEMC Talk with Julia Rohrer on
May 8, 2024, 4:00pm, in person at Paul-Ehrlich-Hörsaal, Campus Charité Mitte, Virchowweg 4.
Talk: Causal confusions correlate with casual conclusions
Speaker: Julia Rohrer from Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
"Correlation does not imply causation; some fields of research have taken this as a reason to teach causal inference primarily in the context of randomized experiments. This has led to some confusion about, for example, the purpose of prediction, and the utility of longitudinal data. In this talk, I will suggest that some of this may be strategic: Being ambiguous about the purpose of an analysis can be a way to have your cake and eat it too. I will discuss potential countermeasures, such as restructuring methods training and requiring transparency about estimands on the journal level."
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