Overview
FromĀ theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ The Organized MindĀ andĀ This Is Your Brain on Music, aĀ primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than everĀ
We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can processāespecially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies.Ā New York TimesĀ bestselling author Daniel J. LevitinĀ 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. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, and distortions from reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categoriesāstatistical information and faulty argumentsāultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. 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 may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren't. 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. This means checking the plausibility and reasoningānot passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it. Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection. Levitin's charming, entertaining, accessible guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren't so. And catch some weasels in their tracks!Ā
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This book title, A Field Guide to Lies (Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method), ISBN: 9780593182512, by Daniel J. Levitin, published by Penguin Publishing Group (November 19, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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