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About the Course

Most professions these days require more than general intelligence. They require in addition the ability to collect, analyze and think about data. Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice. This course presents basic concepts from statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be applied to everything from picking one product over another to critiquing media accounts of scientific research. Concepts are defined briefly and breezily and then applied to many examples drawn from business, the media and everyday life. What kinds of things will you learn? Why it’s usually a mistake to interview people for a job. Why it’s highly unlikely that, if your first meal in a new restaurant is excellent, you will find the next meal to be as good. Why economists regularly walk out of movies and leave restaurant food uneaten. Why getting your picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated usually means your next season is going to be a disappointment. Why you might not have a disease even though you’ve tested positive for it. Why you’re never going to know how coffee affects you unless you conduct an experiment in which you flip a coin to determine whether you will have coffee on a given day. Why it might be a mistake to use an office in a building you own as opposed to having your office in someone else’s building. Why you should never keep a stock that’s going down in hopes that it will go back up and prevent you from losing any of your initial investment. Why it is that a great deal of health information presented in the media is misinformation....

Top reviews

JM

Jul 28, 2019

This course is great! I recommend it to anyone who wants to be able to reason better and have more capabilities in making decisions. Thank you Dr. Nisbett and Coursera for providing this course.

MK

Apr 7, 2020

Anyone beginner can take this course and be 100 times more understanding of information via any media while also perhaps understanding what is the best choice in some give scenario IRL.

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By 148_SouvikMoitra

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Jan 14, 2022

such a nice course

By Pouya P A

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Feb 8, 2023

Perfect Course👌

By Aikaterini T

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Dec 31, 2020

I really like it

By Edward A

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Aug 30, 2018

great... easy to

By Om G

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Apr 20, 2020

Great course 👍

By Samuel C

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Sep 25, 2017

Great content

By Ed M

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Jan 11, 2022

Good course

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By Ajinkya A

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Dec 27, 2019

goood

By Antoni B

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Dec 3, 2017

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By Beatriz S S

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Dec 18, 2023

The course should be more dynamic and less monotonous. If it had been longer, I wouldn't have wanted to continue. Content should be improved, more in the sense of preparing people to apply critical thinking to their work. More reading sheets. Better presentations.

By Nicoletta B

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Mar 25, 2020

Nice lessons but less information than i thought

By Dan L

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Jan 7, 2023

Not bad

By Fernando C

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Feb 7, 2024

Some critical thinking although shallow, and zero information age.

By Alaa A

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Aug 13, 2021

difficult

By Mounir S E

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Apr 7, 2022

not good