What is “explanation”?
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-03-15
Summary:
“Explanation” is this thing that social scientists (or people in their everyday lives, acting like social scientists) do, where some event X happens and we supply a coherent story that concludes with X. Sometimes we speak of an event as “overdetermined,” when we can think of many plausible stories that all lead to X. My [...]