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Item Information   Holdings     Author Notes & Sketches     First Chapter Excerpts     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Summary     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Levitin, Daniel J., author.     Subjects     Critical thinking.     Fallacies (Logic)     Reasoning.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Levitin, Daniel J., author.       by title:      A field guide to lie...         MARC Display

A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age / Daniel J. Levitin. by Levitin, Daniel J., author. Subjects Critical thinking.   Fallacies (Logic)   Reasoning. ISBN:  9780525955221 0525955224 9781101985588 1101985585 Description:  xi, 292 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm Contents:  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.   Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Status Location   BC177 .L486 2016 Circulating Books Checked In St. Clair County Community College Library Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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