1 Logic and Philosophy of Science Department, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA rossl@uci.edu https://www.lps.uci.edu/~rossl/.
2 Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics and Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA kenneth.kendler@vcuhealth.org https://vipbg.vcu.edu/people/kenneth-kendler/.
3 Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA jfw@pitt.edu https://jameswoodward.org.
We explore Madole & Harden's (2022) suggestion that single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)/trait correlations are analogous to randomized experiments and thus can be given a causal interpretation.