Calling bullshit
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Calling bullshit
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#2There are four kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, statistics and big data.
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#4Bullshit is a numbers game, just like spam. Spam doesn't particularly try not to look like spam or avoid spam filters because the target audience isn't employing decent countermeasures.
Maybe marketing can be elevated to the same standard as phishing, where effort is put into deceiving our filters?
If so, this would be a very useful course for a marketeer to attend ;)
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#5This seems like a similar idea to Julian Baggini's "Edge of Reason"[1]. In the book he investigates how we've become very bad at using reason (in the philosophical sense of the word) to examine things around us. I'm about 1/2 way through and I've been finding it very interesting indeed.
[1] http://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300208238 - There's a brief interview with the author that introduces the book on there.
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#6I wish this kind of courses were mandatory for all undergraduates in our post-truth era.
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#7There are four kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, statistics and big data.
You forgot big lies.
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#8From the "patron saint of reason and common sense" I can recommend Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" from superb The Demon-Haunted World:
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-k...
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#9From the "patron saint of reason and common sense" I can recommend Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" from superb The Demon-Haunted World : https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-k...
In fact, that's one of Calling Bullshit's sources:
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#10Yes. Bullshit is ruining everything. There needs to be some kind of grassroots movement to stop it.