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#55-How to Identify BS and When and How to Challenge It-with Guest Jevin West

Thinking Clearly

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What Are Some of Your Favorite Examples of BS?

Bob Greene: I've run across some of that new school BS and there are times when it's like, do I really have the time and energy to start digging into this and figuring out what's going on? So I can see it how it has different sets of challenges to break through. One form of BSing through data graphics is the misuse, sometimes accidental and sometimes on purpose of cumulative graphs. This is one of my favorite quotes that Karl and I like to share when giving an example of BS after we give a definition of what BS is. But let me give you a specific example from my own field.

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