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      <itunes:summary>Felix Mercer unpacks the revolutionary principle behind causal reasoning: holding everything else still. From Ronald Fisher's wheat experiments to modern statistical control, discover how isolating variables transformed how we prove causation—and why most people still get it wrong.

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