Bad Advice: How to Survive and Thrive in an Age of Bullshit

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I am, I’m afraid, extremely not confident that most of these studies would replicate (and several of them definitely have not). Bullshit involves language, statistical figures, data graphics, and other forms of presentation intended to persuade or impress an audience by distracting, overwhelming, or intimidating them with a blatant disregard for truth, logical coherence, or what information is actually being conveyed. the authors give an example where you have to dig down and look up the primary source to sort out a question.

We do misjudge our own abilities, either overestimating or underestimating them, and it does feel from the inside as though confidence drives success as well as success driving confidence. It would require a vast conspiracy of hundreds of thousands of scientists and doctors to sustain – a scenario unlikely to endure. And so, they present the seemingly endless ways we can have bullshit served up to us in ways that feel very comprehensive. See the Tweets of Biden and Harris for Memorial Day last weekend, and the video of Trump with the widow and son of a US Marine killed fighting for the US. I assume your referring to a person who has never flown a plane, not even in a simulator, as opposed to those who didn’t take the test or lost their licence on some administrative technicality.For Eileen O’Sullivan, being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 was the catalyst for a deluge of distinctly unscientific and frequently dangerous advice. It is full of pretty common-sense advice (tell yourself you’re excited rather than anxious, etc); maybe he feels that’ll do more good if it’s backed up with neurobollocks about how it’s all to do with dopamine receptors in the ventral striatum or whatever. As Good Thinking Society project director Michael Marshall explains: “Sums raised through crowdfunding are just the tip of the iceberg, with many patients taking out loans, mortgaging their houses, and spending their life savings.

But… if I were to develop heart disease tomorrow, and you were to ask my wife whether she thinks I’ll survive the next six months, her answer wouldn’t simply be a product of whether she’s a confident, happy-go-lucky sort of person. If you are Professor Ian Robertson, a clinical psychologist and author of How Confidence Works: The new science of self-belief, why some people learn it and others don’t , then the conclusion is obvious. Then you ask it (it’s also a natural-language AI) how confident it is that it will get the next one right.And precisely because of that barrier, “science-y” language has been co-opted by other disciplines intent on bullshitting. But Frederik Anseel from King’s College, London has found that people are willing to listen when negatives are focused on the future. The authors then take the reader on a tour of quantitative fallacies with several examples, all explained clearly and with humor. Beyond that, it’s a solid self help book with a curse word in the title, irreverent and funny while pulling down some common sense. In addition, Coach EO pinpoints the multiple sources and potential remedies for depression and anxiety, among many more imperative subjects.