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Introduction to bullshit
- Brandolini’s Bullshit Asymmetry Principle
- Harry Frankfurt: On Bullshit
- Cohen: Deeper into Bullshit
- Eubanks & Schaeffer: The Problem of Academic Writing
- Austin: Performative Utterance
- Spotting bullshit
- Claims and the Interests of Those Who Make Them
- Heathers: The GRIM Test
- Newcomb & Benford: The Law of Anomalous Numbers
- The natural ecology of bullshit
- TED Talks and the Marketplace for Upscale Bullshit
- Pennycook: On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit.
- Friggeri: Rumor Cascades
- Causality
- Spurious Correlations
- Matthews: Storks deliver babies (p=0.008)
- Milton Friedman’s Thermostat Analogy
- Case Study: Traffic Improvements
- Pearson: Spurious Correlation in the Measurement of Organs
- Statistical traps
- Visualization
- Big data
- Publication bias
- Predatory publishing and scientific misconduct
- The ethics of calling bullshit.
- Fake news
- Refuting bullshit
INFO 270: Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World.
Carl T. Bergstrom; Jevin West.
www.callingbullshit.org
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