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Calling Bullshit 2.4: Fermi Estimation

Written By UW Information School on Tuesday, Apr 25, 2017 | 11:43 AM

 
Using Fermi estimation to check the plausibility of claims, with an example of food stamp fraud. This example is treated in further detail in one of our callingbullshit.org case studies. http://callingbullshit.org/case_studies/case_study_foodstamp_fraud.html 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. http://callingbullshit.org https://twitter.com/callin_bull https://fb.com/callinBS [email protected] Information School https://ischool.uw.edu/ Department of Biology https://www.biology.washington.edu/ Video edited by Bum Mook Oh Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

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