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.
And catch some weasels in their tracks.
Levitin\'s charming, entertaining, accessible Guide can help anyone wake up to a whole lot of things that aren\'t so.
Readers learn to avoid the extremes of passive gullibility and cynical rejection.
This means checking the plausibility and reasoning--not passively accepting information, repeating it, and making decisions based on it.
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.
We may expect newspapers, bloggers, the government, and Wikipedia to be factually and logically correct, but they so often aren\'t.
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.
How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, and distortions from reliable information? Levitin groups his Field Guide into two categories--statistical information and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of Critical thinking.
It\'s becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff.
Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports, revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.
New York Times bestselling author Daniel J.
It\'s raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies.
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
