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**Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction**Winner of the 2017** National Business Book AwardShortlisted 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 disto

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Author

Daniel J. Levitin

Publisher

Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780241240007

Category

mathematics

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Mathematics

Rating

4.2 / 5 (361 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14