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
Jevin D. West (Author)
Jevin West is a data scientist and Associate Professor in the
Information School at the University of Washington. He is Director
of the Center for an Informed Public and co-founder of the DataLab.
His research focuses on misinformation in science and society.
Carl T. Bergstrom (Author)
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.
Essential reading. Even if you feel you can trudge through verbal
bullsh!t easily enough, this book will give you the tools to swim
through numerical snake-oil. . .
*The Telegraph*
A modern classic that is troubling in some places, sobering in
others, and enlightening from beginning to end. . . Bergstrom and
West leave the reader feeling a very particular kind of smarter:
the empowered kind. . . It works anywhere, for anyone: the
academic, the citizen-scientist, citizen-skeptic, and
citizen-curious
*Wired*
A helpful guide to navigating a world full of doubtful claims based
on spurious data. Using clever anecdotes, nods to online culture
and allusions to ancient philosophy, the book tells ordinary
readers how to spot nonsense-even if they are not numerical
whizzes
*The Economist*
Each of us now swims through deception so pervasive that we no
longer realize it's there. Calling Bullshit presents a master class
in how to spot it, how to resist it, and how to keep it from
succeeding
*Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate*
If I could make this critical handbook's contents required
curriculum for every high school student (thus replacing
trigonometry), then I would do so. I highly recommend Calling
Bullshit for our modern existence in the age of misinformation
*Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction*
The information landscape is strewn with quantitative cowflop; read
this book if you want to know where not to step
*Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to be Wrong*
I laughed, I cried -- to read Bergstrom and West's great examples
of 'bullshit.' This is a gripping read for anybody who cares about
how we are fooled (and how not to be), and the connection to
numeracy and science. But it's also just great fun. This is a
necessary book for our times
*Saul Perlmutter, Nobel Laureate*
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