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.
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Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age
University of MichiganAbout this Course
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- Sunk Costs
- Cost–Benefit Analysis
- Cognitive Bias
- Decision-Making
- Data Analysis
- Statistical Inference
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Introduction
Lesson 1: Statistics
Lesson 2: The Law of Large Numbers
Lesson 3: Correlation
Lesson 4: Experiments
Lesson 5: Prediction
Lesson 6: Cognitive Biases
Lesson 7: Choosing and Deciding
Lesson 8: Logic and Dialectical Reasoning
Conclusion
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- 4 stars16.07%
- 3 stars1.75%
- 2 stars0.15%
- 1 star0.23%
TOP REVIEWS FROM MINDWARE: CRITICAL THINKING FOR THE INFORMATION AGE
The professor is likable, the content is engaging and accessible, and the lessons are applicable to everyone's daily life in both personal and professional situations.
A Clear and Useful course to be a Better Decision Maker. Do you need something else? What you waiting for? Take course it's more than a nudge.
A very good course prof Richard has explained very difficult to understand concepts in a very simple language and made it easy for students to grasp the subject matter easily.
this course has a lot of specific examples for each tools of thinking; should be a must taken course for anyone who wants to learn how to think about the world
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