A Field Guide to Lies : : Critical Thinking in the Information age
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Part One: Evaluating Numbers -- Plausibility -- Fun with Averages -- Axis Shenanigans -- Hijinks with How Numbers Are Reported -- How Numbers Are Collected -- Probabilities -- Part Two: Evaluating Words -- How Do We Know? -- Identifying Expertise -- Overlooked, Undervalued Alternative Explanations -- Counterknowledge -- Part Three: Evaluating The World -- How Science Works -- Logical Failures -- Knowing What You Don't Know -- Bayesian Thinking in Science and in Court -- Four Case Studies.
We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.
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PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Dutton, [2016]
Year Published: 2016
Description: xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780525955221
0525955224
SUBJECTS
Critical thinking.
Fallacies (Logic).
Reasoning.