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---
<div id="uncommonsense">
<div class="details-container">
<div class="details-item">
<h1>Uncommon Sense</h1>
<span class="title-text">
A free, experimental program launched in partnership with <a
href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/ea/">Stanford Effective Altruism</a>. Priority applications
close
February 1st at midnight PT. After that applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
</span>
<div class="info-banner">
Play with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and try to figure out its impact on the world.
</div>
<div class="info-banner">
Challenge your ideas.
</div>
<div class="info-banner">
Compete in the <strong>The Economist's World in 2021</strong> forecasting challenge.
</div>
<!--Added html, head, and body tags-->
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Uncommon Sense</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/programdetails.scss">
</head>
<body>
<div id="uncommonsense">
<div class="details-container">
<div class="details-item">
<h1>Uncommon Sense</h1>
<span class="title-text">
A free, experimental program launched in partnership with <ahref="https://web.stanford.edu/group/ea/">Stanford Effective Altruism</a>. Priority applications close February 1st at midnight PT. After that applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis.
</span>
<div class="info-banner">
Play with cutting-edge artificial intelligence and try to figure out its impact on the world.
</div>
<div class="info-banner">
Challenge your ideas.
</div>
<div class="info-banner">
Compete in the <strong>The Economist's World in 2021</strong> forecasting challenge.
</div>

<!-- Thought putting a header here might help make this page easier to navigate -->
<header>
<strong>What is Uncommon Sense?</strong>
Our program is a free online seminar for high schoolers offered in partnership with
<a href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/ea/">
Stanford Effective Altruism
</a>
that gives inquisitive high schoolers the opportunity to master decision-making techniques based
in philosophy, economics, game theory, cognitive science, and statistics. Our teaching team of
Stanford students provides students with valuable critical thinking skills in a unique
discussion-based format.
</header>
&nbsp;
<section class="main">
<div class="comp">
<header class="compete">Compete</header>
<p>
Students will use the skills they learn in Uncommon Sense to compete in global forecasting
competitions like
<a href="https://www.gjopen.com/challenges/50-the-economist-the-world-in-2021">
The Economist's World in 2021 forecasting challenge
</a> for the chance to win the
title of Superforecaster. In these contests, students will practice answers to questions such as
“How many COVID-19 vaccines will be approved and/or authorized for emergency use by the U.S. FDA
as of 31 March 2021?” and “What will be China's year-on-year GDP growth rate for the second quarter
of 2021?”
</p>
</div>
&nbsp;
<div class="educate">
<header class="learn">Learn</header>
<p>
In addition to forecasting, accepted students will learn to build models of complex systems, create
Bayesian priors, examine and combat their cognitive biases, and make more accurate predictions. Classes
are project-based, incorporating interactive activities such as a cold war nuclear simulation, an
iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament, betting with fake currency, and much more.
</p>
</div>
&nbsp;
<div class="ponder">
<header class="reconsider">Reconsider Your World</header>
<p>
Above all, Uncommon Sense will help you reconsider the countless decisions you make each day, like:
</p>

<p>
<ul>
<li>Should you be taking vitamin D to prevent COVID?
<ul><li>(<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2020.105751">one study shows it significantly reduced COVID-19 hospitalizations</a> but
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z">another study shows it doesn’t help patients who are already hospitalized</a>)
</li></ul>
</li>

<li>What career will make you happiest and have the best impact on the world?
<ul><li>(<a href="https://80000hours.org/2012/08/how-many-lives-does-a-doctor-save/">a doctor typically only saves</a>as many lives as
<a href="https://80000hours.org/2017/05/how-much-do-hedge-fund-traders-earn/ #how-do-hedge-funds-make-money-and-how-is-it-shared-among-the-employees">a quantitative trader</a>
<a href="https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models">donating</a> 1% of their income)
</li></ul>
</li>

<li>
How should the US tackle climate change?
<ul><li>(<a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/10/4/6901299/plastic-bags-environment">a plastic bag ban may actually increase emissions</a>, though it would decrease litter)
</li></ul>
</li>
</ul>
</p>

<p>
<strong>Too often, these decisions are automatic, or influenced by our cognitive biases, or
dictated by social norms.
</strong>
Even people’s most strongly held opinions are often just a product of their environment, not
something they’ve actually thought through and come to their own conclusion on ⁠— you can
predict someone’s political party with,
<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/14515/teens-stay-true-parents-political-perspectives.aspx">
70% accuracy
</a>
based on how their parents voted.
</p>
</div>
</section>

<p>
Graduates of Uncommon Sense will gain the skills they need to come to their own conclusions about
critical problems, make more informed choices, and better understand the levers and gears in the world
around them.
</p>
<p>
<strong>The program is free for all admitted students and occurs weekly on Wednesday from 4-5 pm PT.</strong>
</p>

<p>
<strong>What is Uncommon Sense?</strong>
Our program is a free online seminar for high schoolers offered in partnership with
<a href="https://web.stanford.edu/group/ea/">
Stanford Effective Altruism
</a>
that gives inquisitive high schoolers the opportunity to master decision-making techniques based
in philosophy, economics, game theory, cognitive science, and statistics. Our teaching team of
Stanford students provides students with valuable critical thinking skills in a unique
discussion-based format.
</p>
<p>
Students will use the skills they learn in Uncommon Sense to compete in global forecasting
competitions like
<a href="https://www.gjopen.com/challenges/50-the-economist-the-world-in-2021">
The Economist's World in 2021 forecasting challenge
</a> for the chance to win the
title of Superforecaster. In these contests, students will practice answers to questions such as
“How many COVID-19 vaccines will be approved and/or authorized for emergency use by the U.S. FDA
as of 31 March 2021?” and “What will be China's year-on-year GDP growth rate for the second quarter
of 2021?”
</p>
<p>
In addition to forecasting, accepted students will learn to build models of complex systems, create
Bayesian priors, examine and combat their cognitive biases, and make more accurate predictions. Classes
are project-based, incorporating interactive activities such as a cold war nuclear simulation, an
iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament, betting with fake currency, and much more.
</p>
<p>
Above all, Uncommon Sense will help you reconsider the countless decisions you make each day, like:
</p>
<p>
Should you be taking vitamin D to prevent COVID
(<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsbmb.2020.105751">one study shows it significantly reduced COVID-19
hospitalizations
</a>
but
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z">
another study shows it doesn’t help patients who are already hospitalized</a>)?
What career will make you happiest and have the best impact on the world
(<a href="https://80000hours.org/2012/08/how-many-lives-does-a-doctor-save/">a doctor typically only saves
</a>
as many lives as
<a href="https://80000hours.org/2017/05/how-much-do-hedge-fund-traders-earn/#how-do-hedge-funds-make-money-and-how-is-it-shared-among-the-employees">
a quantitative trader
</a>
<a href="https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/cost-effectiveness-models">
donating
</a>
1% of their income)? How should the US tackle
climate change (<a href="https://www.vox.com/2014/10/4/6901299/plastic-bags-environment">a plastic bag ban may actually
increase emissions</a>, though it would decrease litter)?
</p>
<p>
<strong>Too often, these decisions are automatic, or influenced by our cognitive biases, or
dictated by social norms.
</strong>
Even people’s most strongly held opinions are often just a product of their environment, not
something they’ve actually thought through and come to their own conclusion on ⁠— you can
predict someone’s political party with,
<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/14515/teens-stay-true-parents-political-perspectives.aspx">
70% accuracy
</a>
based on how their parents voted.
</p>
<p>
Graduates of Uncommon Sense will gain the skills they need to come to their own conclusions about
critical problems, make more informed choices, and better understand the levers and gears in the world
around them.
</p>
<p>
<strong>The program is free for all admitted students and occurs weekly on Wednesday from 4-5 pm PT.</strong>
</p>

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