USA - University of Washington: How's Your BS Detector?

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  1. ahimsa

    ahimsa Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Interesting article about

    "a wildly popular UW [University of Washington] course taught by Bergstrom and West, 'Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World,' and a book with a similar name."

    https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2023-09/hows-your-bs-detector

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    FYI, Bergstrom has a Mastodon account here: https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom
     
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  2. Sean

    Sean Moderator Staff Member

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    Probably apocryphal, but a winner of a science Nobel prize was asked how they got the right answer, and they replied:

    You don't get a Nobel prize for getting the right answer, you get it for asking the right question.
     
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    JemPD Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Has someone alerted them to PACE? it'd be a great example for them to use i'd have thought.

    @dave30th you very likely well aware of this but tagging you JIC
     
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