Science Literacy - How Solid Science Can Help You Save the World
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Science Literacy - How Solid Science Can Help You Save the World
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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4.3
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This course will help you become scientifically literate so that you can make better choices for yourself and the world. Unlike other courses on statistics and scientific methods, we explore global challenges - such as poverty or climate change - and then discuss how key approaches of statistics and scientific methods can help tackle these challenges. We present these approaches in a non-mathematical and easily accessible way. You will leave the course being able to recognize which efforts to do good in this world actually work, and you will have used your science literacy to make some personal changes in your life.
Many current attempts to do good in this world are based on good intentions, but don’t work well, or are even harmful. In this course we talk to leading experts from academia, business and non-profit organizations about how we can use science to distinguish bad, good and even better ways of improving this world. We also invite you to change your own behavior to do more good. You will learn how to spot BS (bad science) in the media, how to evaluate whether a social program works or not, and how your career could have a better impact on this world. Finally, you will develop your own plan on how you are going to do good better with science.
Guest speakers include Behavioral Economist Dan Ariely, Philosopher Peter Singer, and Happiness researcher Elizabeth Dunn.
Программа курса: что вы изучите
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Раздел
Science literacy as a vaccine against the charlatans
We kick off this course by providing some ammunition for what the astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson said: ”Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.” Here, you will discover that you should be wary of the recommendations that you get from our governments on how to save water, from the media based on new scientific findings, and even from our doctor. At the same time, you will see that a basic understanding of statistics and scientific methods - which you will acquire throughout this course - will protect you against misinformation and bad science, and help you make better choices for yourself and for this world. At the end of this week you will create and upload a short 3-minute video pitch about global challenges and what your own role is in tackling them (if any).
Please note that Erasmus University Rotterdam pursues the science of learning. Online learners are important participants in that pursuit. The information we gather from your engagement with our instructional offerings makes it possible for faculty, researchers, and designers to continuously improve their work and, in that process, build learning science. By registering as an online learner, you are also participating in research.
6 видео (всего 66 мин.), 7 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 тест
6 видео
Water we doing?!10мин
Optional video: What Morillio and his team are doing to improve access to clean water4мин
Dear doctor7мин
Optional video: Full-length interview with John Ioannidis35мин
Implanting a chip in your brain6мин
7 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Cost-benefit analyses to answer the question: should I floss or not?10мин
Make your own cost-benefit analysis10мин
Check your cost-benefit analysis5мин
Optional documentary about costs and benefits of eating meat10мин
Why Most Research Findings Are False10мин
Optional reading: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science10мин
Ted Talk "Photos that bear witness to modern day slavery"10мин
1 практическое упражнение
Please take 3 minutes to tell us how things are going14мин
2
Раздел
Stop guessing!
"Whenever you leave behind failure, that means you're doing better. If you think everything you've done has been great, you're probably dumb." – Louis CK.
Many social programs - such as efforts to reduce poverty or improve people’s health - are based on good intentions but simply don’t work, or are even harmful. This week you will discover that humans are pretty bad at guessing which programs work, and that the best way to assess whether a program works is by running randomized controlled trials. You will see that conducting multiple rigorous evaluations is how we can leave behind failure and do better in this world. And not be dumb. At the end of this week you’ll be ready to put your new skills to use by critically assessing a BS (bad science) media report.
9 видео (всего 112 мин.), 10 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 5 тестов
9 видео
A big fat problem13мин
Video testimonial: hear how your fellow learners are doing2мин
Optional: Full-length interview with Dan Ariely34мин
Poverty, Bills & Cash1мин
Poverty, Bills & Cash Continued7мин
Optional video: full-length interview with Paul Niehaus34мин
2 minute excerpt from the interview with Dan Ariely2мин
Micro Creditis9мин
Our interviewees talk about being annoyed6мин
10 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Week introduction2мин
Giving Game1мин
Charity overview5мин
PlayPumps5мин
Doing good1мин
Charity Details5мин
About the Giving Game1мин
Giving well5мин
Ted Talk: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women10мин
Pay it forward10мин
4 практического упражнения
Initial Charity Choice1мин
Reflect on PlayPumps2мин
Final Charity Choice1мин
Dan Ariely's panda express experiment8мин
3
Раздел
Putting it all together
15 видео (всего 187 мин.), 7 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 4 тестов
15 видео
Buying happiness15мин
Optional video: full length interview Elizabeth Dunn25мин
Optional video: full-length interview Peter Singer26мин
Measuring your own happiness - question 11мин
Measuring your own happiness - question 2 & 31мин
Measuring your own happiness - question 42мин
Measuring your own happiness - question 5 - 82мин
Measuring your own happiness - question 9мин
Measuring your own happiness - question 10мин
Some final comments on happiness1мин
In the best of wealth12мин
Optional video: full-length interview Robert Wiblin31мин
9 to 513мин
Imagine. You are almighty - what would you do?8мин
Optional: full-length interview Marcel Fafchamps46мин
7 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Week Introduction1мин
Optional video: Want to find out more about measurement validity?28мин
Thought Experiment Conclusion1мин
Arctic expedition10мин
Doing Good Better7мин
Optional: Beth Barnes on how to save the world7мин
Optional: Want to find out more about how organizations can calculate cost-effectiveness10мин
3 практического упражнения
Graded multiple choice quiz: measurement matters20мин
Thought Experiment5мин
How rich are you?7мин
4
Раздел
Yes but wait
5 видео (всего 44 мин.), 10 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 тестов
5 видео
Optional: Full-length interview Karen Maas6мин
Fishy finance9мин
Optional video: Full-length interview Helen Toxopeus13мин
Know this tune?5мин
10 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Week 4 Introduction5мин
Existential Risk1мин
Optional: Ted Talk Bill Gates10мин
Optional: Video of the Ocean Cleanup Project10мин
Other existential risks10мин
Expert risk assessment10мин
Existential Risk Conclusion10мин
Comparing potential for impact10мин
Podcast: How can we prioritize global challenges?59мин
Optional videos: mini tutorials by Dirk Bezemer10мин
2 практического упражнения
Existential Risk5мин
What's your carbon footprint?7мин
4.3
Лучшие рецензии
автор: AV•Oct 12th 2016
This is a very interesting and possibly even eye-opening course. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to use more rationality and solid science in everyday life.
Преподавателя
Vera Schölmerich
PhDErasmus University College, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University
Kellie Liket
PhDImpact Centre Erasmus (ICE) - Erasmus School of Economics
О Erasmus University Rotterdam
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