New course available at the Univ. of Washington

[Turbineguy]

This is a course that trump supporters would not want to take.

Bergstrom teamed up with Jevin West, an assistant professor in the iSchool, to design a curriculum that explains how to recognize and refute falsehoods — whether they’re disguised as rumors, gossip, bombast, urban legends, shoddy science or fake news.

The seminar’s 160 spots filled up one minute after registration opened, but the public can follow along online. http://www.callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html

big data is a focus of the class: It’s one of the primary ways that people spread falsehoods and get away with it. After all, numbers and graphs look real and reputable. By taking this seminar, students will learn how to dodge statistical traps and distinguish association from causation.

http://www.heraldnet.com/life/calling-bs-uw-course-aims-to-counter-a-profane-new-problem/

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R ......for visibility..

Hope this spreads rapidly. Badly needed, apparently.

[meow2u3]

2. K&R for necessity nationwide

[central scrutinizer]

3. I always covered this material

In my basic statistics class. Lesson plans wrote themselves. Pretty much every day there was something in the paper to use as an example.