{"product_id":"a-field-guide-to-lies-critical-thinking-with-statistics-and-the-scientific-method-paperback","title":"A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Levitin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the National Business Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Organized Mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThis Is Your Brain on Music\u003c\/i\u003e, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports, revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 categories--statistical information and faulty arguments--ultimately 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 reasoning--not 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  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel J. Levitin\u003c\/b\u003e, PhD, is a neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and bestselling author. He is Founding Dean of Arts \u0026amp; Humanities at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco, and Professor Emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Your Brain on Music\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe World in Six Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Organized Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Field Guide to Lies\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSuccessful Aging\u003c\/i\u003e. He divides his time between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769630490912,"sku":"9780593182512","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8fbbac3c1908ad83e6e10c742ce2561e.webp?v=1780352386","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-field-guide-to-lies-critical-thinking-with-statistics-and-the-scientific-method-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}