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Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom: Spotting and Refuting Bullshit
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UW Office of Public Lectures
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The world is awash in bullshit. Pandering politicians, winking advertisers, startup soothsayers, television “experts”, and even some scientists use the news media to promulgate half-truths, misrepresentations and sometimes outright lies. In this talk, UW professors Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom will provide a set of tools for combatting this misinformation—with a particular emphasis on data, figures, visualizations and statistics. This lecture was originally presented on November 7, 2018.