PPT-Causal Attributions

The reasons for the behavior of others and ourselves WHY theywe behave a certain way eg the cause of behavior Fritz Heider One of the founders of attribution theory Viewed people as amateur naive scientists trying to figure out causes of behavior and assigning . Chapter 5. Introduction to Attributions . Things happen…. Cars break down, people fail exams, sports teams win and lose, people fall in love, marriages end in divorce, people lose their jobs, loved ones die, people fight in the streets, people kill others in war, ethnic groups try to eliminate other groups . What is the availability heuristic?. Information that is most easily assessable or available is seen as more likely to occur . What is the false consensus effect?. The tendency to overestimate the degree of agreement between one’s own thoughts, feelings, behavior, characteristics, etc. especially if they are negative “Everyone does it” . from . Mass Cytometry Data. Presenters: . Ioannis Tsamardinos. and Sofia Triantafillou. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas. Computer Science Department, University of Crete. Michael Rosenblum. March 16, 2010. Overview. I describe the set of assumptions encoded by a causal directed acyclic graph (DAG). I use an example from page 15 of the book . Causality. by Judea Pearl (2009). . : A Ground-Breaking use of Directed Acyclic Graphs. Bob Stoddard SEMA. Mike Konrad. SEMA. Copyright 2015 Carnegie Mellon University. This . material is based upon work funded and supported by the Department of Defense under Contract No. FA8721-05-C-0003 with Carnegie Mellon University for the operation of the Software Engineering Institute, a federally funded research and development center.. Susan Athey, Stanford GSB. Based on joint work with Guido Imbens, Stefan Wager. References outside CS literature. Imbens and Rubin Causal Inference book (2015): synthesis of literature prior to big data/ML. theory . Sri Hermawati. The focus of this chapter is on the role of causal processes in decision making.. Newcombs . problem/. the predictors paradox. You are offered a choice between two boxes, B1 and B2. Box . Causes are . difference-makers. .. Effect need not be . universal/deterministic. .. N. ot . everyone who is bitten by a cobra . dies. .. N. ot . everyone who dies is bitten by a . cobra. .. B. ut . cobra bites still cause . Tony Cox. May 5, 2016. 1. Download free CAT software from: . http://cox-associates.com/CAT.htm. . Outline. Why CAT? Challenges for causal analytics. Ambiguous C-R associations: theory & practice. Distributed Systems. Lecture 14. Michael Freedman. 2. Linearizability. Eventual. Consistency models. Sequential. Causal. Lamport. clocks: C(a) < C(z) Conclusion: . None. Vector clocks: V(a) < V(z) Conclusion: . Causal arguments are inductive arguments in which the conclusion is a claim that one thing causes another.. For example:. Clogged arteries cause heart attacks. A rough surface produces friction. Exercise during heat causes sweating. Applying Computational Causal Discovery in Biomedicine Greg Cooper, University of Pittsburgh Richard Scheines , Carnegie Mellon University 11/3/2018 Outline Motivation Basics of Causal Graphical Distributed Systems. Lecture . 16. Michael Freedman. 2. Linearizability. Eventual. Consistency models. Sequential. Causal. Lamport. clocks: C(a) < C(z) Conclusion: . None. Vector clocks: V(a) < V(z) Conclusion: . Dena Nashawati. Advisor: Nathaniel Foster. Wooster Department of Psychology. Introduction. Purpose: evaluate the effects that different cultures and perspectives have on the stigma of mental health. Goal: specifically look at Japanese and American students in terms of culture instead of race or ethnicity.