Date: Tuesday 26th November 2024 Time: 18:30 - 19:30 GMT
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Lecture Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE (map)
Speaker: Alex Edmans (London Business School)
Chair: Daniel Ferreira (LSE Finance & FMG)
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Our lives are minefields of misinformation. It ripples through our social media feeds, our daily headlines, and the pronouncements of politicians, business leaders, and best-selling authors. Stories, statistics, and studies are everywhere, allowing people to find evidence to support whatever position they want. Many of these sources are flawed, yet by playing on our emotions and preying on our biases, they can gain widespread acceptance, warp our views, and distort our decisions.
This talk explains how to separate fact from fiction. Using colourful examples, it first highlights the biases that cause us to mistake statements for facts, facts for data, data for evidence, and evidence for proof. Armed with the knowledge of what to guard against, it then provides a practical guide to combat this tide of misinformation. Going beyond simply checking the facts and explaining individual statistics, it explores the relationships between statistics – the science of cause and effect – ultimately training us to think smarter, sharper, and more critically, to make better sense of the world and take better decisions.
There will be book sales on the night and the author will be signing copies after the event.
Registration
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