On paper, I'm a real collaborator, because that is what I think the test should reveal about me. In reality, I just don't wanna deal with collaboration and I'd rather work alone. Can this be measured? Probably not, but it does present an odd paradox for data scientists to solve.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2140493/counterintu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

My own is what I call the framework rule. All discussions of software frameworks eventually degrade to first person pronouns and the word easy. Knowing that you can always predict your audience and their desires well in advance with extremely high confidence/precision. Easiness is an unmeasurable subjective concept whose second order consequences are always measurable and always cost more and which are likewise identifiable and predictable. That makes it similar to a fractal of Conways law but it applies more broadly.

Andrew Gelman has an interesting review of the book [g], from the perspective of someone working within the statistical establishment that Pearl's book often critiques.

[y] https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/judea-pearl/the-boo...

[g] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/01/08/book-pearl...