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• How Statistics Can Skew Facts – and How We Can Learn to Trust It Again

  Statistics is one of the key criteria in determining the authenticity of knowledge. But can we always trust statistical data? Does the obsession with excessive evidence hold back scientific progress? Anatoliy Karpov, a lead analyst at Mail.ru Group, author of data analysis MOOCs and lecturer at the Bioinformatics Institute and St. Petersburg State University, answered these and other questions during an open online lecture organized by ITMO University’s Center for Science Communication.

  03.04.2020

• How Sciences Falter: Historian on Dermatoglyphics and Phrenology

  There are many companies in Russia that offer to test one’s innate abilities based on their fingerprints. In fact, such tests are long deemed pseudoscientific, and those who do them can be compared with palm-readers and astrologists. Ivan Shirobokov, a doctoral candidate in History and staff member of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), has recently delivered a lecture where he explained the popularity of pseudoscientific forecasts. ITMO.NEWS put down the bullet points.

  27.03.2019