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.
In this talk, author and economist Professor Alex Edmans explains how to separate fact from fiction. 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 make better decisions.
In this session, you’ll learn how to
- Banish Your Biases – the mindtraps that cause us to fall for fluff
- Detect Deception – notice a correlation masquerading as causation, or an anecdote presented as data
- Think Critically – simple questions to ask, to know how much you can really trust an information source
Continuing Education Credits:
This webinar is approved for 1 CEU from The International Coaching Federation (ICF) (.75 Core Competency & .25 Resource Development), EMCC Global, Association for Coaching and Wellcoaches.
In order to receive credit you must attend live and complete a survey after the webinar (emailed the day after the webinar).
Watching a recording will not qualify you for CEUs.
Please note that AI recordings, notetakers, or any similar technology, is prohibited to protect confidentiality. Also, a notetaker or bot does not count towards your attendance of a live event. To be eligible for CEUs for live events, the participant themselves must be in attendance.