A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
Language: English
Published by Allen Lane, New York, NY, 2016
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Levitin, Daniel J. A FIELD GUIDE TO LIES: CRITICAL THINKING IN THE INFORMATION AGE New York, NY: Allen Lane 2016 FIRST EDITION Fine/Fine 292pp. 8vo. Dust jacket does show some shelf wear with a few faint marks. Edges show light wear and bumping. White boards are clean with a red spine that shows silver titling. Edges show minimal wear or bumping. Text is faintly age toned but otherwise clean and binding is firm throughout. Overall book was very well taken care of by the previous owner and remains in fine condition.
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- Title
- A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
- Author
- Levitin, Daniel J.
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0670069949
- ISBN 13
- 9780670069941
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Winner of the 2017 National Business Book Award
Shortlisted for the 2016/2017 Donner Prize
From the bestselling author of The Organized Mind, the must-have book about how to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload.
It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions and outright lies from reliable information? In A Field Guide to Lies, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them.
Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical infomation and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. It is easy to lie with stats and graphs as few people "take the time to look under the hood and see how they work." And, just because there's a number on something, doesn't mean that the number was arrived at properly. Logic can help to evaluate whether or not a chain of reasoning is valid. And "infoliteracy" teaches us that not all sources of information are equal, and that biases can distort data.
Faced with a world too eager to flood us with information, the best response is to be prepared. A Field Guide to Lies helps us avoid learning a lot of things that aren't true.
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