How to Avoid Confident Mistakes in the AI Era

What you'll learn
Use AI as a Socratic partner to challenge assumptions and improve reasoning
Detect and avoid confident mistakes, even when data appears clean or significant
Understand and apply the Biomechanical Trinity to real-world analysis
Implement Persistent Workflow Prompting (PWP) for better AI-supported thinking
Perform quantitative reality checks before drawing conclusions
Bridge research insights with clinical and real-world decision making
Requirements
This course is designed to be beginner-friendly for AI workflows and practical for biomechanics and movement analysis, with a low barrier to entry.
Basic comfort with data and graphs, such as reading plots and understanding what a metric represents.
Some familiarity with biomechanics, movement science, or applied data (for example gait, forces, kinematics, or clinical movement concepts). If you are not a biomechanist, that is still fine. The reasoning framework applies broadly.
Helpful but not required: experience with motion capture, gait analysis, or exposure to C3D files and biomechanics software (Visual3D, OpenSim, Nexus, Qualisys).
A computer (Windows or Mac) with a modern browser and access to ChatGPT or a similar large language model (free or paid). Sample datasets are provided.
No coding skills, advanced math, expensive lab equipment, or specific software licenses are required. If you can follow a structured checklist and read a plot, you are ready.
Description
AI has made it easy to generate clean plots, smooth metrics, and confident explanations.It has not made it easier to know when those outputs are actually correct. This course teaches you how to avoid confident mistakes in the AI era by learning how experts think when faced with data, models, and automated analysis. Instead of using AI as a calculator or answer machine, you will learn how to use it as a Socratic thinking partner that challenges assumptions, exposes hidden flaws, and strengthens judgment.Using biomechanics and movement analysis as a practical example, you will learn a general reasoning framework that applies across any data-driven field. You will see why clean data can still mislead, how interpretation errors hide behind polished outputs, and why evidence is not the same as truth.At the core of the course stems from a simple, repeatable decision loop: Receive, Reframe, Reveal, Respond. This loop trains you to question AI outputs before trusting them, clarify the real question being asked, identify where results could mislead, and decide with insight rather than automation bias.You will also learn how to scale expert reasoning using persistent AI workflows, ensuring that high-quality thinking is applied consistently across many datasets, trials, or reports.This course is not about coding, equations, or software tutorials. It is about learning how to think clearly when AI is fast, confident, and sometimes wrong. If you work with data, rely on AI outputs, or make important decisions based on evidence, this course will change how you think before you click "analyze."
Who this course is for
Professionals who want to use AI as a thinking partner, not a shortcut to answers.
People who make important decisions based on data and cannot afford to be confidently wrong.
Learners who care more about reasoning quality than software tricks, tools, or dashboards.
Biomechanists, movement scientists, and gait analysts working with quantitative data.
Clinicians and rehabilitation professionals who use movement and biomechanical data in practice.
Sport scientists and performance analysts interpreting training, force, or motion data.
Researchers, PhD students, and peer reviewers who want to strengthen scientific reasoning.
STEM professionals and data analysts in any technical or applied domain.
Educators who want to teach critical thinking with AI, not button-clicking workflows.
Anyone who wants to think clearly in the AI era, question data before trusting it, and use AI to strengthen judgment rather than weaken it.
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