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In a world overwhelmed by confident yet often misleading claims, research professor Alex Edmans emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and informed decision-making to combat misinformation and enhance our freedom.
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This class, featuring insights from experts like Steven Pinker and Gary Marcus, equips learners with critical thinking tools to navigate biases, understand scientific research, and make informed decisions in a media-saturated world, emphasizing the importance of questioning assumptions and grounding perceptions in data.
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This class, featuring experts like Timothy, Herman, and Zollman, explores organizational culture and decision-making by emphasizing psychological qualities, diverse perspectives, and the importance of collaboration, trust, and organized skepticism to enhance team effectiveness and combat cognitive biases.
“The only requisite for nonfiction is that it’s true," says Nathan Thrall, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "A Day in the Life of Abed Salama."
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality.
We can no longer approach the news as passive consumers.
It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.
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Though quantum mechanics is an incredibly successful theory, nobody knows what it means. Scientists now must confront its philosophical implications.
For nearly a century, physicists have argued over how to interpret quantum physics. But reality exists independent of any interpretation.
Even the dictionary doesn't get the definition right.
Realism in science cannot be completely unmoored from human experience. Otherwise, realism ends up tortured with unreal paradoxes.
Science is a method of inquiry about nature, while scientism is philosophy. And scientism is no longer up to the challenge of meeting the most pressing issues of our day.
The modern antiracist movement is harming the very people it claims to help, according to the linguist John McWhorter.
It may be the only way to save the USA — and the world — from alternative facts. “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.” –Ernest Rutherford There […]