A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (684 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0525955224 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process—especially in election season. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Infoliteracy means understanding that there are hierarchies of source quality and bias that variously distort our information feeds via every media channel, including social media. We need to think critically about the words and numbers we encounter if we want to be successful at work, at play, and in making the most of our lives. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions, and outright lies from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical infomation and faulty arguments—ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. And catch some lying weasels in their tracks! . Levitin's charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren't so. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. From TheNew York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This is Your Brain on Music, a primer to the critical thin
Cheng, Tarkington Chair of Teaching Excellence and professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School“Hits on the most important issues around statistical literacy, and uses good examples to illustrate its points. I could not put this book down. Reading it has been a pleasure, believe me. I am so impressed with Levitin's writing style, which is clear and simple, unlike much of the murky stuff that is written by statisticians and many others.”—Morris Olitsky, former Vice President, Market Research and Analysis, Prudential Financial, Statistician, U.S.D.A.“Insightful and entertaining—an excellent work.”—Gregg Gascon, Biom
All around excellent Abacus I have read numerous books on this subject. Many of them have too many errors, focus on trivial considerations or arcane mathematical technicalities, and few cover the important subject of applying critical thinking not only to numbers but words (logic, reasoning protocol, etc.). Given that, this is one of th. Tough Ideas made Easy and go down Smooth Daring2do For anyone about to start University this is a must have primer. Levitin writes in such an easy going way that you can see him smiling as he provides examples to explain hard ideas in a simple, clear manner. If you find stats and research methods confusing or daunting this is for you. At the same time, as con. "A great guide to critical thinking" according to P. Pounds. An outstanding overview of critical thinking. A (relatively) short read but it does get the brain cells cranked up. You can't just breeze through it; you have to think and that's what makes it great.
His work has been translated into 21 languages. An award-winning scientist and teacher, he now adds best-selling author to his list of accomplishments as This Is Your Brain on Music , The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind were #1 best-sellers. Before becoming a neuroscientist, he worked as a session musician, sound engineer, and record producer working wit