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| * Week 1: The Purpose and Limitations of Science
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| ** [[1.1 Introduction and When Is Science Relevant]]
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| ** [[1.2 Shared Reality and Modeling]]
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| ** [[1.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 2: What we can Measure
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| ** [[2.1 Senses and Instrumentation]]
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| ** [[2.2 Systematic and Statistical Uncertainty]]
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| ** [[2.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 3: Statements of Uncertainty
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| ** [[3.1 Probabilistic Reasoning]]
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| ** [[3.2 Calibration of Credence Levels]]
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| ** [[3.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 4: Dealing with Noise
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| ** [[4.1 Signal and Noise]]
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| ** [[4.2 Finding Patterns in Random Noise]]
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| ** [[4.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 5: Trade-offs and Progress
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| ** [[5.1 False Positives and Negatives]]
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| ** [[5.2 Scientific Optimism]]
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| ** [[5.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 6: Establishing Causation
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| ** [[6.1 Correlation and Causation]]
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| ** [[6.2 Hill's Criteria]]
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| ** [[6.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 7: Types and Consequences of Causation
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| ** [[7.1 Causation, Blame, and Policy]]
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| ** [[7.2 Emergent Phenomena]]
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| ** [[7.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 8: Describing and Simplifying Reality
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| ** [[8.1 Orders of Understanding]]
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| ** [[8.2 Fermi Problems]]
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| ** [[8.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 9: Heuristics and Biases
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| ** [[9.1 Heuristics]]
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| ** [[9.2 Biases]]
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| ** [[9.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 10: Catching and Countering Biases
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| ** [[10.1 Confirmation Bias]]
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| ** [[10.2 Blinding]]
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| ** [[10.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 11: Science Gone Wrong
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| ** [[11.1 Pathological Science]]
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| ** [[11.2 When Is Science Suspect]]
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| ** [[11.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 12: Group Evaluations
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| ** [[12.1 Wisdom of Crowds and Herd Thinking]]
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| ** [[12.2 Grill the Guest]]
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| ** [[12.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 13: Better Group Decision Making
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| ** [[13.1 Denver Bullet Study]]
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| ** [[13.2 Deliberative Polling]]
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| ** [[13.3 Plenary]]
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| * Week 14: The Outlook and Potential of Science
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| ** [[14.1 Wrap Up]]
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| ** [[14.2 Scenario Planning]]
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| ** [[14.3 Plenary]]
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