Calling Bullshit 4.5: Jevin’s Turn

Jevin goes looking for bullshit and finds it - in Carl’s textbook. Jevin calls bullshit on Carl’s use of track and field records by age to illustrate senescence, and Carl tries to explain himself. This example is described further in another of our case studies.
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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.
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Information School ischool.uw.edu/
Department of Biology www.biology.wa...
Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

[@benwincelberg9684]

Ironically, there is a smaller sample size of older runners because of senescence

[@yesmsg429]

So while your hypothesis was true, the evidence you provided did not statistically support it, meaning you would have to prove it another way? Is that correct? PS - Will get to the case study.

[@carlbergstrom9071]

Yes. That is a perfect summary of the situation.