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Causal mapping – overview
Task 1 – Gathering causal mapping data
Task 2 – Causal coding – minimalist style
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Task 3 – Answering questions – General
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Causal mapping in evaluation
Causal Mapping as QDA
Causal Map app and alternatives
AI in qualitative social science
! Bias in AI
How to – in the Causal Map app
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!! Getting philosophical
AI and the wider world
!! Beyond causal mapping
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Counterfactuals are part of the meaning of causation but are not necessarily part of how we know about it
Just about everything is complex
There has always been complexity
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Can AI accurately map causal claims - A validation study
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Comparing a Fine-Tuned Model to an Engineered Prompt in the Context of Causal Connections in a Passage of Text
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Causal mapping as causal QDA
Causal mapping of loneliness interviews
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Minimalist coding for causal mapping
Our paper on an inductive workflow to gather and analyse evidence at scale.
Quality assurance and rigour in causal mapping – ensuring robust conclusions and inferences
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Case study – Qualia asks about USA problems, again
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Pages in this Chapter
Counterfactuals are part of the meaning of causation but are not necessarily part of how we know about it
Just about everything is complex
There has always been complexity