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Calling Bullshit

The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

Author: Jevin D. West and Carl T. Bergstrom  

We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists

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We think we know bullshit when we hear it, but do we? A spotter's guide to bullshit in the wild from two brilliantly contrarian scientists

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The world is awash in bullshit, and we're drowning in it. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. These days, calling bullshit is a noble act.

Based on their popular, eponymous, course at the University of Washington, professors Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West catalogue bullshit in its many forms, explaining where bullshit arose in our evolutionary past and why it is ubiquitous today. Calling Bullshit offers readers the tools to see through the obfuscations, deliberate and careless, that dominate every realm of our lives. In this lively guide Bergstrom, a computational biologist, and West, a statistician, teach us that calling bullshit is crucial to a properly functioning social group, whether it be a circle of friends, a community of academics, or the citizenry of a nation.

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About the Author

Jevin West is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington, and is co-director of the DataLab. He develops knowledge discovery tools to both study and facilitate science, with particular interest in the origin of scholarly disciplines and how sociological and economic factors drive and slow the evolution of science.

Carl Theodore Bergstrom is a theoretical and evolutionary biologist and a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research focuses on the flow of information through biological and social networks.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd | Allen Lane
Published
4th August 2020
Pages
336
ISBN
9780241438107

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