Beyond Your Reckons: from feels to facts

what makes a fact a fact? how can we think about the world around us that is not simply a pile of reckons?

This is a lightning talk I gave at a FutureLearn internal lightning talks session

Transcript

1. Beyond Your Reckons: from feels to facts Ben Fields
2. What is truth?
3. What is your truth?
4. Is it your opinion?
5. What do you know?
6. Sidebar: types of knowledge
7. epistemology
8. Knowing That vs Knowing How vs Knowing Why
9. Knowing That
10. true false concrete abstract data statistics evidence null hypothesis lies bullshit facts logical reasoning
11. facts
12. stuff you can measure
13. stuff you can test
14. Framing ideas as testable hypotheses
15. I buy too many things at the market when I’m hungry? photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaiyuya/6187065152/
16. People tend to spend more money at the supermarket when they haven’t eaten in <n> hours? photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaiyuya/6187065152/
17. The time since my last meal has no impact on my total spend at the supermarket? photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tamaiyuya/6187065152/
18. the null hypothesis
19. Cool, but like this feels like a lot of work
21. look at assertions critically
22. good: how do you know that?
23. good: how do you know that? better: how can you know that?
24. Thanks! bother me on twitter: @alsothings