Calling Bullshit 1.2: Calling Bullshit on Our Own Bullshit

Jevin uses data graphics to boast about explosive growth at our website callingbullshit.org and Carl calls bullshit. Old-school bullshit versus new-school bullshit.
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
callingbullshit.org
/ callin_bull
callinBS
[e-mail]
Information School ischool.uw.edu/
Department of Biology www.biology.washington.edu/
Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

[@Debthouse]

Brilliant use of having two professors teaching a class!

[@aZnPriDe707]

This observation is interesting and accurate!

[@Gertzerroz]

This class sounds amazing I wish this was a requirement to graduate at all Universities.

[@KWSHOPS]

A million thanks for sending this out for free!!!! Not everyone can afford a post secondary education today, but WE ALL need to have access to this information. You're doing God's work

[@persianchris2451]

That was soooo sick!! Love it guys, good work

[@ollie6794]

What an amazing lecture! Breath of fresh air after the day of corporate bullshit 😁

[@lilodutoit376]

Beautiful! Abso-freakin-lutely fantastic! This is GENUINELY lifting my sense of complete and utter despair at the cult of Facebook researchers that provide an uninterrupted flow of bullshit.

[@bradhouston4734]

I love this! I’m late to the boat here, but have been on it since a young age

[@AidanFilms]

so many hits.

[@LukeSwart]

At 7:45, what three letters is he talking about?

[@hrich2007]

Actually I think he was referring to "convolutional neural net" or CNN.

[@screenteasing]

He's saying "these 3 latter's (latter ones)" not "these 3 letters" as of saying "these last 3 mentioned buzzwords" in the third paragraph.

[@fleeflng]

I think 'WTF' :)

[@emma70707]

Possibly "ome"?

[@joshbrackelsberg9626]

How do I apply for an honorary degree on calling bullshit? Lol

[@wanTANdan]

when you start to annoy yarsshelf

[@prasatt]

Anyone came to this because of David Epstein's "Range"?

[@vishisht4224]

🙋‍♀️

[@websurfer5772]

How many scientists are making a living off of bovine scat?

[@noahjoshua1710]

wait guys im confusion is this bullshit or fr we supposed to learn?

[@johnries5593]

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[@Rainfish9]

These men seem to think the truth is a ball of metal they can poke at with a stick