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SUMMARY:Critical Thinking for Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Reasoning and logical inference are essential ingredients of scientific thinking and are important in engineering and the social sciences. Especially in causal and probabilistic reasoning are lurking fallacies, paradoxes, and other pitfalls. Psychological literature is full of examples of scientific fallacies, cognitive biases, and distorted risk perception. In this workshop we will learn how to avoid these fallacies. Participants will gain competence in logical thinking (de-ductive and inductive inference), the evaluation of causal and statistical arguments, rational choice theory, and risk assessment.\nLearning results:\n\n\nCompetence in logical reasoning\nKnowing how to draw conclusions from given premises\nAbility to distinguish between valid and invalid inferences\nAbility to distinguish between causation and correlation\nKnowing how to use bayesianism as a tool for probabilistic reasoning\nKnowing how to decide under risk and uncertainty\n\nMain topics:\n\nDeductive and inductive inference\nLogical fallacies\nVerificationism and falsificationism\nScientific reasoning according to Popper and Kuhn\nProbabilistic reasoning\nBayesianism\nThe Monty Hall problem\nThe Simpson paradox\nCausation and correlation\nThe common cause principle\nRational choice theory\nThe framing effect\nThe Ellsberg paradox\nRisk assessment\nDecision making under risk and uncertainty\n\nRequirements for participation: Since the course is conducted in a shortened online format, and you will still receive one credit point for it, there is a self-study component in addition to the online sessions. The assignments will be provided one week before the seminar begins.\n
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LOCATION:University of Stuttgart, , The participants will receive the access-link and all necessary infomation one day before the seminar., , 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.gradus.uni-stuttgart.de/en/news/event/Critical-Thinking-for-Scientists-00002/
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