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“Where causation is concerned, a grain of wise subjectivity tells us more about the real world than any amount of objectivity.”
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
“If I could sum up the message of this book in one pithy phrase, it would be that you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.”
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
“the surest kind of knowledge is what you construct yourself.”
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
“During deep NREM sleep specifically, the brain communicates a calming signal to the fight-or-flight sympathetic branch of the body’s nervous system, and does so for long durations of the night. As a result, deep sleep prevents an escalation of this physiological stress that is synonymous with increased blood pressure, heart attack, heart failure, and stroke.”
― Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
― Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can’t tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.”
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Danica’s 2025 Year in Books
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