Can I read A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age on EtoBox?

A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Levitin, Daniel J. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age about?

Introduction: Thinking, critically -- 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 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' Rule. -- Glossary.;A primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. 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. New York Times bestselling author 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 infor

Who reads A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age?

Author

Levitin, Daniel J.

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group;Dutton

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101986189

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Science, Philosophy

Rating

3.76 / 5 (980 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14