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May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It

April 14, 2025
12:00pm to 01:00pm ET
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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.

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.

Meet Our Speaker

Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talks “The Pie-Growing Mindset” and “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.