We look at Tyler Vigen’s silly examples of quantities appear to be correlated over time, and note that scientific studies may accidentally pick up on similarly meaningless relationships.

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 1-credit 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 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.

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Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

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