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Readings for the 1st of March 2018

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1. Concise introduction to fallacies of reasoning: http://faculty.ccri.edu/paleclerc/logic/fallacies.shtml
2. List of fallacies: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/ (czech version: http://www.obcanskevzdelavani.cz/work/ke-stazeni/argumentacni-fauly-A3-barva.pdf)

Readings for the 8th of March 2018

1. Basic: Wilson & Bar-Anan (2008) The Unseen Mind: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.188.56&rep=rep1&type=pdf
2. Optional: Kahneman & Tversky (1974): Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases: http://people.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/Ec101/JudgementUncertainty.pdf
3. Bonus;-) http://existentialcomics.com/comic/9

Reading for the 15th of March 2018

1. Pronin & Kugler (2006) Valuing thoughts, ignoring behavior: The introspection illusion as a source of the bias blind spot. https://jdc325.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/bias_blind_spot_pronin.pdf

Reading for March 28th

1. Required:How to spot fake news: https://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/how-to-spot-fake-news/
   1. alternative for czech-speaking students: http://zvolsi.info/manual-2/ (targetting high-school students but still worth reading)
2. Optional: Field Guide to Fake News  
3. Optional: Vosoughi, S., Roy, D., & Aral, S. (2018). The spread of true and false news online. Science, 359(6380), 1146-1151.
   • you can use Sci-Hub if you don’t have access to Science
4. Bonus: take a fake news detection test: http://factitious.augamestudio.com/#/

Reading for April 5th 2018

1. Required: Richard Feynman (1966) What is science: http://profizgl.lu.lv/pluginfile.php/32795/mod_resource/content/0/WHAT_IS_SCIENCE_by_R.Feynman_1966.pdf
2. Optional: Saturday Night Live: Theodoric of York, Medieval Barber (video, 6.5 minutes)

Reading for May 3rd 2018

1. Required: Crawford, Kate. “Six provocations for big data.” (2011)., available at: bigdata.jdem.cz
2. Optional, but highly recommended: Guide to Bayesian thinking, with explanations at multiple levels of difficulty and detail: https://arbital.com/p/bayes_rule/?l=1zq

Readings for May 10th 2018

1. Required: Cook & Lewandowsky (2011) The Debunking Handbook: https://www.skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf
2. Optional: Engber (2018) LOL Something Matters: https://slate.com/health-and-science/2018/01/weve-been-told-were-living-in-a-post-truth-age-dont-believe-it.html