Judea Pearl

1936– · Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)

Topics: learning, mathematics, artificial intelligence

• Simpson's paradox (Simpson 1951; Blyth 1972), first encountered by Pearson in 1899 (Aldrich 1995), refers to the phenomenon whereby an event C increases the probability of E in a given population p and, at the same time, decreases the probability of E in every subpopulation of p.

  — Judea Pearl

• Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

  — Judea Pearl

• You cannot answer a question that you cannot ask, and you cannot ask a question that you have no words for.

  — Judea Pearl