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A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age, Daniel J. Levitin
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- Summary
- 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. 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? 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 292 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Introduction: Thinking, critically
- Plausibility
- Fun with averages
- Axis shenanigans
- Hijinks with how numbers are reported
- How numbers are collected
- Probabilities
- How do we know?
- Identifying expertise
- Overlooked, undervalued alternative explanations
- Counterknowledge
- 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
- Appendix: Application of Bayes's Rule
- Isbn
- 9781101985588
- Label
- A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age
- Title
- A field guide to lies
- Title remainder
- critical thinking in the information age
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel J. Levitin
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Statistics
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Fallacies (Logic)
- Fallacies (Logic)
- Kritisches Denken
- Argumentation
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology
- Reasoning
- Reasoning
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Statistics
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. 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? 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Levitin, Daniel J
- Dewey number
- 153.4/2
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BC177
- LC item number
- .L486 2016
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Critical thinking
- Fallacies (Logic)
- Reasoning
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Reasoning
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- PSYCHOLOGY
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- PSYCHOLOGY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Critical thinking
- Fallacies (Logic)
- Reasoning
- Argumentation
- Kritisches Denken
- Label
- A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age, Daniel J. Levitin
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Thinking, critically -- Plausibility -- Fun with averages -- Axis shenanigans -- Hijinks with how numbers are reported -- How numbers are collected -- Probabilities -- How do we know? -- Identifying expertise -- Overlooked, undervalued alternative explanations -- Counterknowledge -- 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 -- Appendix: Application of Bayes's Rule
- Control code
- ocn934676963
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 292 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101985588
- Lccn
- 2016007356
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o934676963
- (OCoLC)934676963
- Label
- A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age, Daniel J. Levitin
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-282) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Thinking, critically -- Plausibility -- Fun with averages -- Axis shenanigans -- Hijinks with how numbers are reported -- How numbers are collected -- Probabilities -- How do we know? -- Identifying expertise -- Overlooked, undervalued alternative explanations -- Counterknowledge -- 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 -- Appendix: Application of Bayes's Rule
- Control code
- ocn934676963
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 292 pages
- Isbn
- 9781101985588
- Lccn
- 2016007356
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o934676963
- (OCoLC)934676963
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Statistics
- Critical thinking
- Critical thinking
- Fallacies (Logic)
- Fallacies (Logic)
- Kritisches Denken
- Argumentation
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology
- Reasoning
- Reasoning
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Statistics
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Applied Psychology
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Statistics
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