02 - The Four Rs

<p>Session #2 of the REINFORCE Critical &amp; Scientific Thinking course, &#39;The Four Rs&#39;, is given by Nobel Prize laureate Saul Perlmutter, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.</p> <p>During this session, Prof. Perlmutter continues with an explanation of the Sense and Sensibility and Science course, developed at UC Berkeley, focussing on the so-called &#39;Can-Do&#39; aspects of science, such as Scientific Optimism, as well as the ideas of Confirmation Bias and Blind Analysis; and Group Thinking. The session poses the question of whether the concept of the Three Rs should evolve into the Four Rs: Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Scientific Reasoning.</p>