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Tactic for reasoning about what would happen if variables were different — supports causal identification and intervention analysis.
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| name | counterfactual-reasoning |
| description | Tactic for reasoning about what would happen if variables were different — supports causal identification and intervention analysis. |
| execution | tactic |
| used-by | causal-modeling, variable-identification, intervention-analysis, model-validation |
Reason about what would happen if a variable were different. "If X had not occurred, would Y still have happened?" This is the gold standard for causal identification.
