Field Guide to Lies
Winner of the National Business Book AwardFrom 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 everWe are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can pr… Celý popis ↓
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Field Guide to Lies
Winner of the National Business Book AwardFrom 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 everWe are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process--especially in election season. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies.
How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, and distortions from reliable information? 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. Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical information and faulty arguments--ultimately
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