Sit'n Listen!

Episode 28: We’re back with a new episode of Sit’N Listen, this time with guests Dr. Carl Bergstrom and Dr. Jevin West to discuss their book "Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World." Introduction (00:00) About the authors (00:50) What is bullshit? (09:01) Goodhard’s Law (13:39) Graph reading pitfalls (20:46) Correlation and causation (24:39) Assessing scientific claims (34:23) Combating public misinformation (39:50) Conclusion (46:25) For More Information: Book: https://www.callingbullshit.org/ Carl Bergstrom: http://ctbergstrom.com/ Jevin West: https://jevinwest.org/ Tyler Vigen’s website on unrelated correlated variables: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations. Article in The Atlantic about the marshmallow test and confounding variables: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/marshmallow-test/561779/ This episode was written and produced by Edward Chen, Sanjana Kulkarni, Shantam Ravan, and Samantha Tracy. Special thanks to Justin Skycak for help with Zoom au