johnswentworth comments on Optimized Propaganda with Bayesian Networks: Comment on “Articulating Lay Theories Through Graphical Models”

[johnswentworth]

(and are conditionally independent given the value of $C$)

I believe this should say “conditionally dependent”.

[Zack_M_Davis]

Thanks, you are right and the thing I actually typed was wrong. (For the graph A → C ← B, the collider C blocks the path between A and B, but conditioning on the collider un-blocks it.) Fixed.