487How
to Spot and Refute Bullshit?How
to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the
social and natural sciences？Bergstrom,
Carl T., and Jevin D. West. Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a
Data-Driven World. First edition. New York: Random House, 2020. Sources:https://callingbullshit.org/https://datalab.ischool.uw.edu/projects/calling-bullshit As
the oft-quoted saying goes, there are three kinds of lies,: lies, damned lies,
and statistics. In a world drowning in data, statistical methods and other
tools of scientific inquiry are increasingly being used to advance erroneous
claims. In their book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven
World, evolutionary biologist Carl Bergstrom and data scientist Jevin D. West explains
how to identify and refute data-driven misinformation and disinformation, or in
their word, bullshits. This book contains 11 chapters and begins with an
overview of bullshit and ends with tactics for refuting
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