That’s interesting. It’s hard for me to tell what’s easy anymore (Pinker’s curse of knowledge) in this area. I do think Pearl’s book isn’t very hard compared to a lot of other math books, though. For example, I find “Unified Methods for Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality” a ton harder to read.
Naturally, I have a lot of arguments for reading Pearl, but my strongest argument against reading Pearl is that he doesn’t tackle statistical issues at all, and they are very important in practice.
That’s interesting. It’s hard for me to tell what’s easy anymore (Pinker’s curse of knowledge) in this area. I do think Pearl’s book isn’t very hard compared to a lot of other math books, though. For example, I find “Unified Methods for Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality” a ton harder to read.
Naturally, I have a lot of arguments for reading Pearl, but my strongest argument against reading Pearl is that he doesn’t tackle statistical issues at all, and they are very important in practice.