Calling Bullshit 2. 2: Sounds Too Good to Be True

If a claim seems too good or too bad to be true, it probably is. An example involving recommendation letters, and the perils of confirmation bias. Course: INFO 198, BIOL 106B. University of Washington Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it. The course will be offered as a 1credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 20172018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web. Information School Department of Biology Video edited by Bum Mook Oh Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No. 7