Speaking as a high-school kid, I found the first two of your choice quotations entirely lucid. I have not yet read the article (don’t ask why I’m in the comments before having done that), and so I would imagine that, the group of people that would a) find the writing style difficult, and b) wish to learn about causal inference in a mildly formal sense, have a very small overlap.
Speaking as a high-school kid, I found the first two of your choice quotations entirely lucid. I have not yet read the article (don’t ask why I’m in the comments before having done that), and so I would imagine that, the group of people that would a) find the writing style difficult, and b) wish to learn about causal inference in a mildly formal sense, have a very small overlap.
I wrote at length on that quotation in a follow-up comment in that thread.