Re: [MBZ] OT: Bullshit Course

2017-02-21 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curley wrote: > The fact that this is needed indicates the complete collapse of the pubic > skool system and Merkun Kolledges and univerities. Let's look a bit further. There is more than merely skool systems. OkieBenz can suss this out - we are, after all, DoItYourself. Shall we begin? After a

Re: [MBZ] OT: Bullshit Course

2017-02-21 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes
The fact that this is needed indicates the complete collapse of the pubic skool system and Merkun Kolledges and univerities. But as indicated by the discussions of "how to lie with statistics" on this forum, it is badly needed. No hoya zones are needed more than "safe rooms" archer75--- via

[MBZ] OT: Bullshit Course

2017-02-20 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Two University of Washington professors have assembled a course to teach students to identify bullshit. Biology professor Carl Bergstrom and assistant professor at the university's Information School Jevin West have devised the “Calling Bullshit in the Age of Big Data” course as their small co