Calling Bullshit 3.6: Manipulative Experiments

We look at how manipulative experiments can be used to work out the direction of causation in correlated variables, and sum up the questions one should ask when presented with a correlation.
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
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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

[@yesmsg429]

Otimo. Gostei muito. (Excellent. I enjoyed it.) Look forward to next week.

[@pw7225]

Love your lectures!

[@wesanderson3941]

Causal Modeling. See Pearl, Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines.

[@dansumners]

post hoc ergo propter hoc