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West es profesor asociado en la misma universidad, experto en ciencia de datos y desinformación.

Known for: Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World es un libro que enseña a los lectores cómo detectar y desmontar afirmaciones engañosas, manipulaciones estadísticas y desinformación en la era digital. Los autores, científicos de datos y biólogos, explican cómo el pensamiento crítico y la alfabetización en datos son esenciales para navegar un mundo saturado de información falsa y sesgada.

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The Information Landscape

The modern information landscape is unlike anything humans have faced before. The printing press democratized knowledge, but it could not have prepared us for the algorithmic firehose of social media. Every minute, millions of posts, memes, and data visualizations flow through platforms optimized no...

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Bullshit in Numbers

Numbers carry a false aura of authority. A claim backed by data feels objective, immune to argument. But numbers can lie — not because math itself deceives, but because humans manipulate how data are collected, framed, and presented. We see this daily: a study showing that teenagers who play video g...

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West es profesor asociado en la misma universidad, experto en ciencia de datos y desinformación.

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