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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age (2016)

par Daniel J. Levitin

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Business. Psychology. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, 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 processâ??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 information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categoriesâ??statistical infomation and faulty argumentsâ??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 reasoningâ??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 lying weasels in their tracks!
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    How to lie with statistics par Darrell Huff (PuddinTame)
    PuddinTame: Daniel J. Levitin said that his book was inspired by Huff's, a book he had read several times and appreciated more with each reading.
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    Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists par Joel Best (PuddinTame)
    PuddinTame: Daniel J. Levitan particularly recommended this book in his own.
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    Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data par Charles Wheelan (PuddinTame)
    PuddinTame: Daniel J. Levitan particularly recommended this book in his own.
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    Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients par Ben Goldacre (themulhern)
    themulhern: For a counter-argument about the reliability of peer-reviewed journals, at least medical ones.
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    Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception par Charles Seife (themulhern)
    themulhern: If you like the subject, but would like to read a better, clearer, more insightful, and funnier book.
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    Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? par Charles Seife (themulhern)
    themulhern: Better book, similar subject.
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    Probability and Statistics for Everyman: How to Understand and Use the Laws of Chance par Irving Adler (themulhern)
    themulhern: If you are actually interested in understanding probability, try this instead.
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This was a book I had to read for school and now I finally remembered to actually review it.

We live in a world that is full of lies and fake news. We have news outlets who claim the other is wrong. What is a person to believe. Weaponized Lies reminds the reader of all the things an educated person should do to "break through the noise." How do we gauge authority? What are trusted sources? It was an informative and relatively quick read (when I wasn't working on a project for it.)

I shared it with my co-worker who eats, sleeps, and breathes this stuff. I think he enjoyed it more than I did. Still, it's an important read for all people in today's world!! ( )
  msgabbythelibrarian | Jun 11, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
Kind of like an extension of Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics (elibrary link), which is definitely required reading for anyone who feels like a naïve idiot and some people who feel like the opposite.

If you want more of that, or if you have a statistics quiz coming up and your regular time-wasting activities feel too much like wasting time, try this book. It'll be like watching House to prepare for a medical test on "things that are not Lupus." ( )
  brutalstirfry | May 6, 2022 |
Definitely learned stuff from this book but its not an entertaining tome and is drier than Levitin's other works. ( )
  fionaanne | Nov 11, 2021 |
Good tips, and valuable recommendations for thinking critically about information we receive, especially from ideologically based websites and blogs. It's sad to see the studies which show how poor many students are at being able to question and recognize illogical and unsubstantiated data.
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  rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |
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Business. Psychology. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, 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 processâ??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 information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categoriesâ??statistical infomation and faulty argumentsâ??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 reasoningâ??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 lying weasels in their tracks!
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