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  • CRITICAL THINKING: The Essential Leadership Skill
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THE PERVASIVENESS OF BULLSHIT

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One of the most distinguishing features of our culture and society is that there is bullshit everywhere and each of us contributes his or her share.


Bullshit is pervasive. In politics, in the media, advertising, education, the arts, and, of course, in religion. Bullshit misleads and therefore bullshit harms. There is a lot at stake here. In this section, Dr. Douglas will discuss what bullshit is, how to identify it, and how to call it.

BULLSHIT: HOW TO RECOGNIZE IT AND HOW TO COUNTER IT

  • Recognize bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it.

  • Old school bullshit vs. new school bullshit

  • The Importance of skepticism in a data-driven world

  • Forensic data analysis: Spotting bullshit in the wild

  • The bullshit we have been taught in order to "make it" in contemporary society

  • How to recognize "bullshit" addresses, fake news, clickbaiting and misleading advertising

  • Calling Bullshit: Fighting for Facts in a Post-Truth World

  • The difference between a liar and a bullshitter

  • Finding the line between deserved criticism and targeted harassment


  • Selection, sampling and volunteer statistical biases


  • Understanding the ‘Will Rogers Phenomenon’


  • The Base Rate Fallacy


  • Data graphics: Powerful tools for misleading audiences

  • Defeating implicature


  • Calling paltering bullshit

  • Denying ‘Occam’s Razor’

  • Hitchens's and other epistemological razors

  • Carl Sagan: ‘The Fine Art of Baloney Detection’



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