Calling Bullshit Syllabus

Format: Lessons

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Language/s: English

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Resource Link: View the Lesson

Target Audience: Postgraduate and professional

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Undergraduate

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Short Description:

Carl Bergstrom's and Jevin West's nice syllabus for 'Calling Bullshit'.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 1-3 Association is not the same as causation
• 1-7 Beware of conflicting interests
• 1-9 Earlier is not necessarily better
• 2-8 Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
• 2-10 All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported
• 2-13 Average measures of effects can be misleading

Details

Learning Objectives:

The learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to:

• Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet.
• Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it.
• Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bullshit.
• Provide a statistician or fellow scientist with a technical explanation of why a claim is bullshit.
• Provide your crystals-and-homeopathy aunt or casually racist uncle with an accessible and persuasive explanation of why a claim is bullshit.

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