Calling Bullsh*t by Carl Bergstrom & Jevin West: Resources for Teaching

Syllabus for Bergstrom & West's course at the University of Washington, first taught in 2017. "Our aim in this course is to teach you how to think critically about the data and models that constitute evidence in the social and natural sciences."

Chapter from Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World.

The Debunking Handbook 2020 summarizes the current state of the science of misinformation and its debunking.

The purpose of this assignment is for students explore the question of "There's a lot of bullshit out there — but how much exactly, and of what form?" by taking a "bullshit inventory" of all of the bullshit they encounter over the course of a week.

A set of case studies based upon examples of bullshit in the wild.

OER teaching resource from QUBES (Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis) website. Description: "Use the calling bull course to introduce students to data, ethics, visualization, and R."

The Spot-The-Troll quiz is an educational tool to help the public learn to spot the markers of inauthenticity in social media accounts.

Blog post from Nathan Yau, FlowingData.

A collection of examples of variables that correlate but have nothing to do with each other. (Discussed in Chapter 4)