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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 Manoj S

Jan 25, 2018

Crisp and fun

By Elena E

Jul 22, 2022

Great course

By Rachel

Mar 29, 2022

Great course

By Annette R 1

Apr 28, 2020

great course

By Байцар О А

Apr 10, 2020

great course

By 002_ A K

Dec 30, 2021

Nice Course

By Noelle M

Aug 25, 2021

Excellent!

By Priyanka R

Jul 15, 2021

Very useful

By Nafisa S

Sep 7, 2020

loved it!!!

By Francisco H C

Mar 20, 2018

Very useful

By KHALD A M A

Nov 8, 2021

very good

By Alan P R

Jul 29, 2023

Muito bom

By Maria D

Jan 10, 2021

Excellent

By Pedro A

Nov 2, 2020

very good

By Federico F

Jul 31, 2020

Excelente

By Muhammad B

Mar 22, 2020

Fantastic

By haiyan w

Dec 26, 2019

very good

By Fernando V

Jul 11, 2018

Excelente

By Cynthia A C

Jul 13, 2023

Excelent

By KOGHULAN R

Jul 10, 2021

WORTH IT

By Vitalii R

May 26, 2020

Love it.

By Ganesha H

Feb 12, 2023

Mindful

By Ybrayeva L

Apr 13, 2024

SUPER!

By Stefany V

Jan 12, 2024

thanks

By Sarah E S

Jul 8, 2023

Great!