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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
Physics
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Prof Guy Ron
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Prof Guy Ron
Course/Module description:
The world we live in is filled with information. A large fraction of it is wrong, inaccurate, or misleading. During this course we will learn to navigate this information overload and identify when we are being mislead, how cognitive biases work, and how to choose our information sources.
Course/Module aims:
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.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
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.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture
Course/Module Content:
Choosing information sources
Misleading statistics
Correlation and Causality
Cognitive Bias
Visualization
Fake News
Science and Pseudoscience
Required Reading:
None
Additional Reading Material:
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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