Calling Bullshit 6.6: The Principle of Proportional Ink

Описание: Our principle of proportional ink states that when a shaded region is used to represent a numerical value, the area of that shaded region should be directly proportional to the corresponding value. We look at graphs that violate this principle and discuss how such violations can be misleading. This example is treated in further detail in one of our callingbullshit.org articles: http://callingbullshit.org/tools/tool...
May 3, 2017

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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Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7