Description
Mindware course: Critical Thinking in the Information Age published by Coursera Online University. Most jobs these days require more than just general intelligence. They must also be able to collect, analyze and reflect on data. Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to everyday problems involving judgment and choices. This course introduces the basic concepts of statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology, and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be applied to everything from choosing one product over another to criticism of media reports on scientific research. The concepts are briefly defined and then applied to numerous examples from business, media and everyday life.
What kind of things will you learn? Why interviewing people for a job is usually not the right thing to do. Why is it highly unlikely that if your first meal at a new restaurant is excellent, you will find your next meal to be just as good? Why do economists regularly leave the cinema and leave restaurant food uneaten? Why your photo on the cover of Sports Illustrated usually means your next season will be a disappointment. Why you may not have the disease, even if you test positive. Because you will never know how coffee affects you unless you do a coin toss experiment to determine whether or not you drink coffee in a day. Why it might be wrong to use an office in a building you own instead of having your own office in someone else’s building. Why you should never hold a stock that is falling in the hope that it will rise and prevent you from losing your initial capital. Why much of the health information presented in the media is false information.
What you’ll learn in Mindware: Critical Thinking in the Information Age:
- Introduction
- statistics
- The law of large numbers
- Correlation
- the experience
- forecast
- cognitive biases
- Choice and decision
- Logical and dialectical reasoning
Course Specifications
- Editor: Coursera
- Instructors: Richard E. Nisbett
- French language
- Level: Introduction
- institution/university: University of Michigan
- Number of weeks: 4
- Duration: approx. 1 p.m. to finish
Courses included:
Week 1
Week 1
Week 2
Week 2
Week 3
Week 3
Week 4
Week 4
Pictures
Mindware: Introductory Video to Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Installation guide
After the clip, watch with your favorite reader.
Subtitle: English
Quality: 720p
Download links
File password(s): free download software
size
1.51 GB