A field guide to lies and statistics a neuroscientist on how to make sense of a complex world
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 l...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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. This book outlines recommendations for critical thinking practices that meet the challenges of the digital age's misinformation, demonstrating the role of science in information literacy while explaining the importance of skeptical reasoning in making decisions based on online information Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE EVALUATING NUMBERS -- Plausibility -- Fun with Averages -- Axis Shenanigans -- Hijinks with How Numbers Are Reported -- How Numbers Are Collected -- Probabilities -- pt. TWO EVALUATING WORDS -- How Do We Know? -- Identifying Expertise -- Overlooked, Undervalued Alternative Explanations -- Counterknowledge -- pt. THREE EVALUATING THE WORLD -- How Science Works -- Logical Fallacies -- Knowing What You Don't Know -- Bayesian Thinking in Science and in Court -- Four Case Studies -- Conclusion: Discovering Your Own |
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| Beschreibung: | xi, 292 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780241240007 978-0-241-24000-7 024124000X 0-241-24000-X |