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<h4 class="slot-header">About <span>Calling Bullshit</span></h4>
<p><b>Bullshit isn’t what it used to be.</b> <b>Now, two science
professors give us the tools to dismantle misinformation and
think clearly in a world of fake news and bad data.</b><br>
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Misinformation, disinformation, and fake news abound and it’s
increasingly difficult to know what’s true. Our media
environment has become hyperpartisan. Science is conducted by
press release. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art.
We are fairly well equipped to spot the sort of old-school
bullshit that is based in fancy rhetoric and weasel words, but
most of us don’t feel qualified to challenge the avalanche of
new-school bullshit presented in the language of math,
science, or statistics. In <i>Calling Bullshit,</i> Professors
Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West give us a set of powerful tools
to cut through the most intimidating data. <br>
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You don’t need a lot of technical expertise to call out
problems with data. Are the numbers or results too good or too
dramatic to be true? Is the claim comparing like with like? Is
it confirming your personal bias? Drawing on a deep well of
expertise in statistics and computational biology, Bergstrom
and West exuberantly unpack examples of selection bias and
muddled data visualization, distinguish between correlation
and causation, and examine the susceptibility of science to
modern bullshit. <br>
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We have always needed people who call bullshit when necessary,
whether within a circle of friends, a community of scholars,
or the citizenry of a nation. Now that bullshit has evolved,
we need to relearn the art of skepticism.</p>
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<h4 class="slot-header">Praise</h4>
<p class="clearfix"> “The information landscape is strewn with
quantitative cowflop; read this book if you want to know
where not to step.”<b>—Jordan Ellenberg, author of <i>How
Not to be Wrong</i><br>
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</b>“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 <i>Calling Bullshit</i> for our modern existence
in the age of misinformation, and regret only that I didn’t
think of the title for my own book.”<b>—Cathy O’Neil, author
of <i>Weapons of Math Destruction</i></b><i><br>
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“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.”<b>—Saul
Perlmutter, Nobel Laureate and professor of physics,
University of California at Berkeley <br>
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“If you want to read what will surely be a classic, buy <i>Calling
Bullshit</i>. It addresses the most important issue of our
time: the decline in respect for Truth. It is also a
literary masterpiece. Every page—indeed, every paragraph—is
a new bit of fun.” <b>—George Akerlof, 2001 Nobel Laureate
in economics<br>
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“Each of us now swims through deception so pervasive that we
no longer realize it’s there. <i>Calling Bullshit</i>
presents a master class in how to spot it, how to resist it,
and how to keep it from succeeding.”<b>—Paul Romer, 2018
Nobel Laureate in economics<br>
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</b>“Part playful polemic and part serious scientific
treatise on a plague that ‘pollutes our world by misleading
people about specific issues and . . . undermines our
ability to trust information in general’ . . . a
statistically challenging master class in the art of
bullshit detection.”<b>—<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b></p>
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