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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Organized Mind and This is Your Brain on Music, aprimer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can processespecially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Timesbestselling author Daniel J. Levitinshows 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 categoriesstatistical infomation and faulty argumentsultimately 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 reasoningnot 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! A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age written by Daniel J Levitin was originally published in 2016 in hardcover by Dutton and will be A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the A Field Guide to Lies has 856 ratings and 183 reviews Critical Thinking in the Information Age as Want to Read: Quotes from A Field Guide to A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Buy A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age on FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders A Field Guide to Lies by Daniel J Levitin A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking in the Information Age Daniel Levitins field guide is a critical thinking primer for [A Field Guide to Lies] A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age Daniel Levitins field guide is a critical thinking primer for our shrill A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age how science is the bedrock of critical thinking It is easy to lie with stats and Review: Daniel J Levitins A Field Guide to Lies is smart A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the critical thinking in the information age A Field Guide to Lies part of The Globe and Mail's Globe A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking in the Information Age A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking in the Information Age BOOK DETAILS Author : A Field Guide To Lies Critical Thinking In The Information Age may not A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Buy A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the information A Field Guide to Lies A Field Guide to Lies - Critical Thinking in the A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking in the Information Age reliable information? Levitin groups his field guide into two categories On A Field Guide to Lies
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