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  1. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    Winner of the 2016 Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction One of Hudson Booksellers' Best Business Interest Books of 2016 "Daniel Levitin's field guide is a critical thinking primer for our shrill, data-drenched age. It's an essential tool for really understanding the texts, posts, tweets, magazines, newspapers, podcasts, op-eds, interviews and speeches that bombard us every day.

  2. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    The total population is bigger. Life expectancy at age 80 has barely changed (something you can verify even on the commercial website Levitin uses as a reference). ... A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age is a thoroughly researched and easy to understand book on critical thinking. Highly recommended for readers 14+.

  3. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    Buy A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age on Amazon.com FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders ... Critical Thinking in the Information Age", published in hardcover in September 2016. It has been re-issued in this paperback form in March 2017, changing the title to take advantage of the buzz around the "post-truth era", but ...

  4. A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age

    Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical information and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. It is easy to lie with stats and graphs as few people "take the time to look under the hood and see how they work".

  5. A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. Daniel J. Levitin. Penguin, Sep 6, 2016 - Social Science - 304 pages. 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 ...

  6. A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. Daniel J. Levitin. Penguin Books Canada, Sep 6, 2016 - Business & Economics - 304 pages. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction Winner of the 2017 National Business Book Award Shortlisted for the 2016/2017 Donner PrizeFrom the bestselling author of The Organized Mind ...

  7. A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age

    A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age Bookreader Item Preview ... A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age by Levitin, Daniel J., author. Publication date 2016 Topics Critical thinking, Fallacies (Logic), Reasoning Publisher

  8. A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age

    A field guide to lies : critical thinking in the information age. Responsibility Daniel J. Levitin. Publication ... Outlines recommendations for critical thinking practices that meet the challenges of the digital age's misinformation, demonstrating the role of science in information literacy while explaining the importance of skeptical ...

  9. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    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 In A Field Guide to Lies, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them.

  10. A Field Guide to Lies : Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age. A Field Guide to Lies. : Daniel J. Levitin. Dutton, 2016 - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS - 292 pages. We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process -- especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies.

  11. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

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  12. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical infomation and faulty arguments—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.

  13. PDF A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    This book can help you to avoid learning a whole lot of things that aren't so. And catch some lying weasels in their traces. 2. We've created more human-made information in the last five years than in all of human. history before that. Unfortunately, found alongside things that are true is an enormous.

  14. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

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  15. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    In A Field Guide to Lies, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them. Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical infomation and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking.

  16. A Field Guide to Lies

    A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age is a bestselling book written by Daniel J. Levitin and originally published in 2016 by Dutton (Penguin Random House).It was published in 2017 in paperback with a revised introduction under the new title Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-truth Era; a new edition was published in 2019 under the title A Field Guide ...

  17. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    Levitin groups his field guide into two categories—statistical information and faulty arguments—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.

  18. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the

    Winner of the National Business Book Award 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 process—especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times ...

  19. 12: Misinformation and Fake News

    In our information rich world, you deserve accurate and comprehensive information. Encountering lies and biased information by deceptive means is frustrating, time consuming, and sows seeds of mistrust. We have seen misinformation and fake news threaten democracy (political mistrust) and even threaten public health (COVID-19 crisis).

  20. Fallacy

    A formal fallacy, deductive fallacy, logical fallacy or non sequitur ( Latin for "it does not follow") is a flaw in the structure of a deductive argument that renders the argument invalid. The flaw can be expressed in the standard system of logic. [1] Such an argument is always considered to be wrong.

  21. Student Perceptions of the Gamification Process in Virtual Learning

    In this same order of ideas, 45.7% of students have reported that gamification strategies make the learning process more interactive, 16.3% said it was funnier, 17.4% said it was more motivating and 14.2 expressed it was more practical, while only 3.8% of the students reported feeling that the gamification made the learning process more complicated and 2.6% saw it as an obstacle for learning ...

  22. Philosophy

    Philosophy (φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions. Historically, many of the individual sciences, such as physics and psychology, formed part of philosophy.

  23. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

    With great interest, I read Daniel Levitin's recent books "Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era" and "A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age." Both of these books give a good primer to deal with statistics, going over such things in detail such as Bayesian analysis in terms of a 2x2 table.

  24. How to Change Your Career from Marketing to Data Science?

    1. Assess Your Current Skills and Identify Gaps. Evaluate Your Marketing Experience: Determine what is common among the variety of skills, which may include data analysis, pattern recognition, and similar other types of critical thinking, and data science. Identify Knowledge Gaps: Through understanding of the skill set of data science consisting of programming languages (Python, R), data ...

  25. Universe

    The physical universe is defined as all of space and time (collectively referred to as spacetime) and their contents. Such contents comprise all of energy in its various forms, including electromagnetic radiation and matter, and therefore planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space. The universe also includes the physical laws that influence energy and matter, such ...