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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindware: Critical Thinking for the Information Age by University of Michigan

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About the Course

Most professions these days require more than general intelligence. They require in addition the ability to collect, analyze and think about data. Personal life is enriched when these same skills are applied to problems in everyday life involving judgment and choice. This course presents basic concepts from statistics, probability, scientific methodology, cognitive psychology and cost-benefit theory and shows how they can be applied to everything from picking one product over another to critiquing media accounts of scientific research. Concepts are defined briefly and breezily and then applied to many examples drawn from business, the media and everyday life. What kinds of things will you learn? Why it’s usually a mistake to interview people for a job. Why it’s highly unlikely that, if your first meal in a new restaurant is excellent, you will find the next meal to be as good. Why economists regularly walk out of movies and leave restaurant food uneaten. Why getting your picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated usually means your next season is going to be a disappointment. Why you might not have a disease even though you’ve tested positive for it. Why you’re never going to know how coffee affects you unless you conduct an experiment in which you flip a coin to determine whether you will have coffee on a given day. Why it might be a mistake to use an office in a building you own as opposed to having your office in someone else’s building. Why you should never keep a stock that’s going down in hopes that it will go back up and prevent you from losing any of your initial investment. Why it is that a great deal of health information presented in the media is misinformation....

Top reviews

SG

Jul 20, 2017

I really love the course, and I have recommended it to all my friends. The course helped me to think more clearly and avoid cognitive biases.

JC

Jun 1, 2023

Interesting course that bult on a lot of what I was familiar with. I do feel It will help me to make better decisions in work and my personal life.

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By Gao X

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Aug 29, 2020

Quite innovative and interesting which makes me reflect on the essence of the science study

By André R S

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Jan 6, 2020

Good to recall some logics, statistics and human behaviours biases that we tend to forget.

By Abhinav L

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Jun 10, 2025

As a person who has studied reason, I found the discussion on logic, unsatisfactory.

By uy t q

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Apr 5, 2022

The knowledge is so helpful. But i think i need spend more time to grasp it

By Abdullah A

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Jun 25, 2020

it's so great and surprising, but, for my age (17), needs more explanation

By Abhimanyu K

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Apr 11, 2020

Nice course. Basic knowledge of decision making and some basic statistics

By Tania T

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May 17, 2020

Great videos and cover a reasonable range of critical thinking theories.

By Chidube V E

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Aug 19, 2020

A phenomenal course presented in digestible bits. Brilliant!

By Jasmin A

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Nov 10, 2018

Very interesting course I just found it to be dry at times

By Meshal A

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Apr 16, 2019

Excellent instructor. Course is full of examples

By Bhavesh L

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Jul 2, 2020

Excellent content with such a experienced tutor

By Kadambeswaran B

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Oct 4, 2020

good overview with good examples

By Stefano E

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Mar 1, 2019

Interesting course.

By 148_SouvikMoitra

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Jan 14, 2022

such a nice course

By Pouya P

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Feb 8, 2023

Perfect Course👌

By Aikaterini T

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Dec 31, 2020

I really like it

By Edward A

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Aug 29, 2018

great... easy to

By Deleted A

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Apr 19, 2020

Great course 👍

By Sam C

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Sep 25, 2017

Great content

By Ed M

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Jan 11, 2022

Good course

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By Ajinkya A

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Dec 27, 2019

goood

By Antoni B

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Dec 3, 2017

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By Beatriz S S

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Dec 18, 2023

The course should be more dynamic and less monotonous. If it had been longer, I wouldn't have wanted to continue. Content should be improved, more in the sense of preparing people to apply critical thinking to their work. More reading sheets. Better presentations.

By Nicoletta B

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Mar 25, 2020

Nice lessons but less information than i thought