Author: mdscur
Psychological/Psychiatric research staff currently investigating prosocial helping behaviors in positive health outcomes in adolescents with substance use disorders. My interests include post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma, Bayesian inference, philosophy of science, thought suppression, and sleep dysfunction.
The obligatory “pose with your poster” photo
Time to play scientist for afew days…
Data!
The Calculus of Causality
I’ve been nurturing an interest in causality (the concept of which I think *might* be a folk psychology) and probabilistic causality in science. This has inevitably taken me to Judea Pearl’s work. Interesting stuff that I’ve only begun scratching the surface of.
The real talk starts about 15 minutes in.
Howdy…
My name is Michael Scur, I am a research assistant/project coordinator in the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Please use the pages and links on this website to see my recent research, academic curriculum vitae, and other interests.
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