Week 6: PDX

Author

Robert W. Walker

Published

October 1, 2025

A link to the slides for the day.

Slides

The Abstracted Questions

  • What assumptions are required for the pathway? Are they stated or unstated?
  • What does the pathway in question look like?
  • How might we know a pathway is emerging?
  • How do we determine differentiators among pathways?
  • What would we want to measure?
  • What are indicators which help show what direction we are going?
  • What has been missed? Are there overlooked alternatives?

Consider this alongside the idea of claims tied to evidence by warrants with appropriate qualification.

How might Pearl’s ladder of causal thinking influence the warrants that tie data to claims ala Toulmin?

What is the Evidence?

A benchmarking exercise and the University’s google gemini.

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