Robert MacCoun

Mar 28, 2024 | time.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

IdeasPerlmutter and Campbell are professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and MacCoun is a professor at Stanford University. They are the coauthors of the forthcoming book Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of NonsenseAll animals, including humans, have limitations in how they find out about the world. And we humans invent instrumentation to correct for weaknesses in our perceptions of the world.

Mar 27, 2024 | msn.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

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Mar 26, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun teach a course at the University of California Berkeley on using scientific tools to approach everyday problems. They’ve now turned that course into the book “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.” Perlmutter joins host Scott Tong to talk about the book.

Mar 26, 2024 | fastcompany.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

By Saul Perlmutter, John Campbell, and Robert MacCounlong ReadExpert overconfidence can have grave consequences. After the Challenger space shuttle exploded in 1986, an investigation found that NASA had officially predicted that there would be one failure in 100,000 launches—about the same odds we considered for getting hit by a car crossing Hearst Ave in the last chapter. Yet other evidence revealed that NASA had strong evidence against this rosy projection.

Mar 26, 2024 | everand.com | Saul Perlmutter |John Campbell |Robert MacCoun

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, philosophy professor John Campbell, and social psychologist Robert MacCoun teach a course at the University of California Berkeley on using scientific tools to approach everyday problems. They’ve now turned that course into the book “Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense.”Perlmutter joins host Scott Tong to talk about the book.