Manipulationist causation

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-016460

1. Manipulationist causation is the proposition that we know that a causal relationship exists when we have manipulated C and observed a response E. Further, in cases of a network of multiple factors that jointly affect E, a manipulationist says that the cause is the thing that we manipulate. Symbolically, we distinguish interventional probabilities P(E|do C) from the simple conditional probability P(E|C). Intervention is often a synonym for manipulation although some authors distinguish the two.

2. Proposition that we know that a causal relationship exists when we have manipulated C and observed a response E. Further, in cases of a network of multiple factors that jointly affect E, a manipulationist says that the cause is the thing that we manipulate. Symbolically, we distinguish interventional probabilities P(E|do C) from the simple conditional probability P(E|C). .

Table 1. Record
Identifier	MLC-T-ENV-016460
Field	Environment
Subject	Information management and systems
References	CADDIS: Causal Concepts; Causal Concepts

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  "subject": "Information management and systems",
  "references": [
    "CADDIS: Causal Concepts",
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  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/manipulationist-causation/"
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