Calling Bullshit Syllabus

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• Format Lessons
• Language/s English
• Target Audience Further education
• EBM Stage 0 - Why EBM?
• Duration >15 mins
• Difficulty Introductory

Key Concepts addressed

• 1-3a Beware of conflicting interests
• 2-2b All fair comparisons and outcomes should be reported
• 2-3c Average measures of effects can be misleading
• 1-2c Association is not the same as causation
• 1-2f Consider all of the relevant fair comparisons
• 1-2j Earlier is not necessarily better

Details

Learning Objectives:

The learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to:

• Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet.
• Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it.
• Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bullshit.
• Provide a statistician or fellow scientist with a technical explanation of why a claim is bullshit.
• Provide your crystals-and-homeopathy aunt or casually racist uncle with an accessible and persuasive explanation of why a claim is bullshit.

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