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About the Course

Most professions these days require more than general intelligence. They require in addition the ability to collect, analyze and think about data.
Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice. This course presents
basic concepts from statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be
applied to everything from picking one product over another to critiquing media accounts of scientific research. Concepts are defined briefly
and breezily and then applied to many examples drawn from business, the media and everyday life. What kinds of things will...
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Top reviews

JM

Jul 28, 2019

This course is great! I recommend it to anyone who wants to be able to reason better and have more capabilities in making decisions. Thank you Dr. Nisbett and Coursera for providing this course.

MK

Apr 7, 2020

Anyone beginner can take this course and be 100 times more understanding of information via any media while also perhaps understanding what is the best choice in some give scenario IRL.

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By Mounir S E

Apr 7, 2022

not good