I had this exact reaction, no discussion of "causal modeling" makes the whole thing seem horribly out of touch with the real issues here. You can have explanatory and predictive models that are causal models, or explanatory and predictive models that are non-causal, and that this the actual issue, not "explanation" vs. "prediction", which is not a tight enough distinction.
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I had this exact reaction, no discussion of "causal modeling" makes the whole thing seem horribly out of touch with the real issues here. You can have explanatory and predictive models that are causal models, or explanatory and predictive models that are non-causal, and that this the actual issue, not "explanation" vs. "prediction", which is not a tight enough distinction.