How to Spot Karl Bergstrom and Jevin West Bullshit
In this episode, we talk about bullshit: what it is, how to spot it, and how to spot it. First, Staff Writer Nick Douglas joins us for the incendiary game Two Truths and Lies. Then we’ll talk to Karl Bergstrom and Jevin West, both professors at the University of Washington who teach a course called Shit Challenge. Finally, Alice talks about why we are so prone to bullshit with staff writer Beth Skorecki, who runs the School of Nonsense Resistance column right here on Lifehacker.
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Discussed in this episode
- Why you can get a potato tattoo
- Mensa for children
- Trypophobia
- How to tell a convincing lie
- Calling Bullshit Class
- Categories of bullshit
- Brandoloni’s nonsense asymmetry principle
- TED talk and bullshit
- Arsenic-life deception
- P-hack
- HowFermi Estimation Can Help You Identify Nonsense
- Why yoga mats were unfairly defamed
- Causal errors and other ways to tell if research is bullshit
And much more. Honestly.
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