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Spotted this excellent book on my travels, translated into Chinese, in a Ningbo (Zhejiang province) bookstore.

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World by Carl Bergstrom and @jevinwest

Publisher: CITIC Press (state-owned)
ISBN: 978-7-5217-3879-7
List price: 79 RMB ($10.77)

#CallingBullshit

@knowprose Great stab there, man!

Reblogged it with my thoughts. 😊

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2024/04/27/reblog-inverted-wisdom-pyramids-of-dall-e/

#ai #callingbullshit

This book seems especially important and appropriate considering the era of disinformation we currently live in.

#CallingBullshit #Books #Audiobook

https://medi-nerd.com/reading-list/calling-bullshit-the-art-of-skepticism-in-a-data-driven-world-audiobook/

@futurebird Has @ct_bergstrom been heard from on this? Stats IS more relevant to #CallingBullshit, which is a badly needed life skill, if not a math capstone.

@lauren
I prefer calling ChatGPT inaccuracies bullshitting, following the lead of
@ct_bergstrom
Coauthor of #CallingBullshit

HT @ct_bergstrom & Jevin D West for introducing #HarryFrankfurt to me reading their #CallingBullshit book:

» Frankfurt ...described #bullshit as what people create when they try to impress or persuade you, without any concern for whether what they are saying is true or false, correct or incorrect

..

Frankfurt's distinction ..lies are designed to lead away from the truth; bullshit is produced with a gross indifference to the truth «

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

#OnBullshit

HT @ct_bergstrom & Jevin D West for introducing #HarryFrankfurt to me reading their #CallingBullshit book:

» Frankfurt ...described #bullshit as what people create when they try to impress or persuade you, without any concern for whether what they are saying is true or false, correct or incorrect

..

Frankfurt's distinction ..lies are designed to lead away from the truth; bullshit is produced with a gross indifference to the truth «

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

#OnBullshit

HT @ct_bergstrom & Jevin D West for introducing #HarryFrankfurt to me reading their #CallingBullshit book:

» Frankfurt ...described #bullshit as what people create when they try to impress or persuade you, without any concern for whether what they are saying is true or false, correct or incorrect

..

Frankfurt's distinction ..lies are designed to lead away from the truth; bullshit is produced with a gross indifference to the truth «

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

#OnBullshit

HT @ct_bergstrom & Jevin D West for introducing #HarryFrankfurt to me reading their #CallingBullshit book:

» Frankfurt ...described #bullshit as what people create when they try to impress or persuade you, without any concern for whether what they are saying is true or false, correct or incorrect

..

Frankfurt's distinction ..lies are designed to lead away from the truth; bullshit is produced with a gross indifference to the truth «

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

#OnBullshit

HT @ct_bergstrom & Jevin D West for introducing #HarryFrankfurt to me reading their #CallingBullshit book:

» Frankfurt ...described #bullshit as what people create when they try to impress or persuade you, without any concern for whether what they are saying is true or false, correct or incorrect

..

Frankfurt's distinction ..lies are designed to lead away from the truth; bullshit is produced with a gross indifference to the truth «

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

#OnBullshit

I’m pleased to report that #CallingBullshit got better as I read it. Chapter 6 was pretty good, and mostly dealt with being a human who experiences something that’s counterintuitive statistically, like class sizes in school.

I keep thinking of #LarryGonick’s #CartoonGuideToStatistics while reading. I think this book may have benefited from a similar graphic treatment. There’s detail in footnotes that might be better in sidebars.

I’m growing more and more disappointed in #CallingBullshit. Chapter 2 would have benefited from consultations with some other academics who have knowledge in the topic of social media, like #AmyBruckman, folks in the #skeptic #sceptic movement, like #StevenNovella, and research on the history and use of the #FairnessDoctine as an ineffective tool of moderation but effective tool of of suppression.

As it reads now, it’s very thin on facts and long on opinions.

I was kinda into #CallingBullshit until the authors fundamentally misunderstood why people post their lunches on social media and started blathering nonsense about the Fairness Doctrine. I hope it gets better than this cloud yelling

@lauren
Oddly, the people who use Mastodon like Mastodon, as @lauren says

In #CallingBullshit there is a chapter "Selection Bias", which explains this concept, book by
@ct_bergstrom and @jevinwest

Oooh!

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Calling Bullshit by Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West: 9780525509202 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Bullshit isn’t what it used to be. Now, two science professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.   “A...

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563882/calling-bullshit-by-carl-t-bergstrom-and-jevin-d-west/

#callingBullshit #misinformation #disinformation #skepticism #bookRecommendation

Credit where credit's due - I found this example by the way in the wonderful book "Calling Bullshit" [1] by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West. I am still reading, but I do like the book and can recommend it to every non-professional statistician trying to separate the valuable from the not so valuable statistics that we are constantly bombarded with.

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[1] https://www.callingbullshit.org/

Highly educational explanation of "right censorship" leading to hard-to-detect logical fallacies: https://youtu.be/ITWQ5psx9Sw #CallingBullshit

Related: #DataScience has "almost never any easy conclusions, just hard ones, and th[ose] are error prone. What analysts don't talk about is how many incorrect charts…get made on the way to making correct ones. Or ones we think are correct. A good #DataViz is so incredibly persuasive that it almost doesn't even matter if it's right…" https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201