Об этом курсе: 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.
Автор: Роттердамский университет им. Эразма
Преподаватели: Vera Schölmerich, PhD
Erasmus University College, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University
Преподаватели: Kellie Liket, PhD
Impact Centre Erasmus (ICE) - Erasmus School of Economics
| Уровень | Beginner |
| Язык | English |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
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, 7 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 practice quiz
- Видео: 90 second trailer
- Видео: Water we doing?!
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Eating no or less animals?
- Leyendo: Cost-benefit analyses to answer the question: should I floss or not?
- Leyendo: Make your own cost-benefit analysis
- Leyendo: Check your cost-benefit analysis
- Видео: Optional video: What Morillio and his team are doing to improve access to clean water
- Leyendo: Optional documentary about costs and benefits of eating meat
- Видео: Dear doctor
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Is your life based on evidence?
- Leyendo: Why Most Research Findings Are False
- Leyendo: Optional reading: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science
- Видео: Optional video: Full-length interview with John Ioannidis
- Cuestionario de práctica: Please take 3 minutes to tell us how things are going
- Leyendo: Ted Talk "Photos that bear witness to modern day slavery"
- Видео: Implanting a chip in your brain
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
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, 10 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 4 practice quizzes
- Leyendo: Week introduction
- Видео: A big fat problem
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: What lifestyle changes would you like to make, and how?
- Видео: Video testimonial: hear how your fellow learners are doing
- Видео: Optional: Full-length interview with Dan Ariely
- Видео: Poverty, Bills & Cash
- Leyendo: Giving Game
- Leyendo: Charity overview
- Cuestionario de práctica: Initial Charity Choice
- Leyendo: PlayPumps
- Cuestionario de práctica: Reflect on PlayPumps
- Leyendo: Doing good
- Видео: Poverty, Bills & Cash Continued
- Leyendo: Charity Details
- Cuestionario de práctica: Final Charity Choice
- Leyendo: About the Giving Game
- Leyendo: Giving well
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Challenge your charity
- Видео: Optional video: full-length interview with Paul Niehaus
- Видео: 2 minute excerpt from the interview with Dan Ariely
- Cuestionario de práctica: Dan Ariely's panda express experiment
- Видео: Micro Creditis
- Leyendo: Ted Talk: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Is the medicine you drop OK for you?
- Leyendo: Pay it forward
- Видео: Our interviewees talk about being annoyed
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Recap Q & A
Оцениваемый: Calling Bad Science (BS)
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
Putting it all together
15 видео, 7 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 practice quizzes
- Leyendo: Week Introduction
- Видео: Buying happiness
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Giving what you can?
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Fooled by correlation
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Changed your mind?
- Видео: Optional video: full length interview Elizabeth Dunn
- Видео: Optional video: full-length interview Peter Singer
- Видео: Measuring your own happiness - question 1
- Видео: Measuring your own happiness - question 2 & 3
- Видео: Measuring your own happiness - question 4
- Видео: Measuring your own happiness - question 5 - 8
- Видео: Measuring your own happiness - question 9
- Видео: Measuring your own happiness - question 10
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Main Take-aways
- Видео: Some final comments on happiness
- Leyendo: Optional video: Want to find out more about measurement validity?
- Cuestionario de práctica: Thought Experiment
- Leyendo: Thought Experiment Conclusion
- Видео: In the best of wealth
- Cuestionario de práctica: How rich are you?
- Leyendo: Arctic expedition
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Thinking rationally about charity
- Leyendo: Doing Good Better
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Will you make any changes to your current career?
- Видео: Optional video: full-length interview Robert Wiblin
- Leyendo: Optional: Beth Barnes on how to save the world
- Leyendo: Optional: Want to find out more about how organizations can calculate cost-effectiveness
- Видео: 9 to 5
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Share your frustration with us
- Видео: Imagine. You are almighty - what would you do?
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: Share your personal #deceptiondetox
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: What are your major take-aways?
- Видео: Optional: full-length interview Marcel Fafchamps
Оцениваемый: Graded multiple choice quiz: measurement matters
Оцениваемый: Doing Good Done Better
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
Yes but wait
5 видео, 10 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 2 practice quizzes
- Leyendo: Week 4 Introduction
- Cuestionario de práctica: Existential Risk
- Leyendo: Existential Risk
- Видео: Innovating to zero
- Leyendo: Optional: Ted Talk Bill Gates
- Leyendo: Optional: Video of the Ocean Cleanup Project
- Видео: Optional: Full-length interview Karen Maas
- Cuestionario de práctica: What's your carbon footprint?
- Leyendo: Other existential risks
- Leyendo: Expert risk assessment
- Leyendo: Existential Risk Conclusion
- Leyendo: Comparing potential for impact
- Leyendo: Podcast: How can we prioritize global challenges?
- Видео: Fishy finance
- Cuadro de aviso de la discusión: We haven't got an answer for this one. You?
- Видео: Optional video: Full-length interview Helen Toxopeus
- Leyendo: Optional videos: mini tutorials by Dirk Bezemer
- Видео: Know this tune?
НЕДЕЛЯ 5
Capstone
You have watched many videos that we made on tackling global challenges with science. Now it’s time to create your own video on how you are going to tackle a global challenge with science.
Оцениваемый: Capstone project
Часто задаваемые вопросы
Как это работает
Trabajo del curso
Cada curso es como un libro de texto interactivo, con videos pregrabados, cuestionarios y proyectos.
Ayuda de tus compañeros
Conéctate con miles de estudiantes y debate ideas y materiales del curso, y obtén ayuda para dominar los conceptos.
Certificados
Obtén reconocimiento oficial por tu trabajo y comparte tu éxito con amigos, compañeros y empleadores.
Авторы
Роттердамский университет им. Эразма
Erasmus University: a top-100 ranked international research university based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Our academic teaching and research focuses on four areas: health, wealth, culture and governance.
Erasmus University Rotterdam: make it happen.
Рейтинги и отзывы
The course could be structured a little bit better and some topics should have been discussed in greater detail. But in general, I really enjoyed the course and found the two instructors very likable.
Very interesting course and most video's are fun to watch.
Only the video's with a lot of interviews or where they switch all the time between skype conversations I sometimes find a bit boring, or I think the duration is too long.
Too many peer-viewed assignment
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What a timely and important course! In comparison to ninety percent of the other courses we all take this is so much more important over the long term for ourselves, our shared planet, and the other species we inhabit the world with. My thanks to everyone who worked and helped on making this course possible. Dr Quincy