TITLE: Skepticism in the Classroom

SPEAKER: Professor Eric Carlson,

TIME: Thursday Feb. 3, 2005 at 4 PM

PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)

Students regularly complain that their science courses teach them skills they never use in the real world. For non-science majors, a course on skepticism can teach them about what science is, how it is done, and how it can be applied in our daily life more effectively than a conventional science course. A course on skepticism gives them tools that help them understand how science is done: how to form hypotheses, how to design experiments, how to analyze data, and how to draw conclusions. They learn about the ways in which reasoning can be led astray, and the ways in which we fool ourselves and others fool us.

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