Calling Bullshit

The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

Calling Bullshit
Jevin D West, Carl T Bergstrom
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h198 x 129mm - 336pg
5 Aug 2021 UK
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9780141987057
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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.
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 inSeattle. His research focuses on the flow of information through biological and social networks.
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ISBN-13: 9780141987057
Published: 5 Aug 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 247g
Pages: 336

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