Business.
Psychology.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:From TheNew 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! *Includes a Bonus PDF with Supplemental G… (plus d'informations)
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!! ( )
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." ( )
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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To Shari, whose inquisitive mind made me a better thinker
Premiers mots
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This is a book about how to spot problems with the facts you encounter, problems that may lead you to draw the wrong conclusions. Â (Introduction)
Statistics, because they are numbers, appear to us to be cold, hard facts.
Citations
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We're far better off knowing a moderate number of things with certainty than a large number of things that might not be so. (Conclusion: Discovering Your Own, p. 254 {Dutton, 2016})
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Following the steps in the Field Guide to evaluate the myriad claims that we encounter is how we stay two steps ahead of the millions of lies that are out there on the Web, and ahead of the liars and just plain incompetents who perpetuate them.
Business.
Psychology.
Sociology.
Nonfiction.
HTML:From TheNew 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! *Includes a Bonus PDF with Supplemental G
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!! ( )