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A step-by-step strategy for protecting ourselves against the phony claims, trendy pseudoscience, and sloppy thinking that permeate our world.

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Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231168721
ISBN-13
9780231168724
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212825291

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Author
David Helfand
Publication Name
Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age : Scientific Habits of Mind
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages

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0.9in
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0.1in
Item Width
0.7in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz

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Q172.5.E77h45 2016
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College Graduate Student
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A must-read for anyone presuming to call themselves a scientist and a should-read for anyone just trying to make sense of the overwhelming volume of data and real and concocted 'proofs' of nearly everything that spews forth from the Internet on demand. This book provides a road map for teaching students how to both celebrate science and how to view their primary source of information with skepticism and caution. Every science teacher should read this book., A Survival Guide for the Misinformation Age is an impassioned plea for science literacy. Given the state of the world today, in which scientifically underinformed voters elect scientifically illiterate politicians, David Helfand has written the right book at the right time with the right message. Read it now. The future of our civilization may depend on it., A Survival Guide for the Misinformation Age is an impassioned plea for science literacy. Giventhe state of the world today, in which scientifically under-informed voters elect scientifically illiterate politicians, Professor David Helfand has written the right book at the right time with the right message. Read it now. The future of our civilization may depend on it.--Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History, "A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age "is a no-holds-barred paean to the scientific mode of thinking. Helfand's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, humorously cynical intellect comes through at every turn.--J. Craig Wheeler, The University of Texas at Austin, David Helfand's Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age gives readers a chance to spend time with one this country's clearest and best critical thinkers. Helfand channels Steven Pinker's ability to dissect language with John Alan Paulos's ability to explain numbers with Richard Dawkins' ability to explain our existence (to obtain food, to avoid being food, and to reproduce) with George Carlin's ability to make us laugh. Using personal anecdotes (he's a Red Sox fan), Helfand teaches us how to think through questions as diverse as why the moon doesn't make us lunatics to why it only takes twenty-three people to have a 50:50 chance that two will have the same birthday. A real pleasure., A Survival Guide for the Misinformation Age is an impassioned plea for science literacy. Giventhe state of the world today, in which scientifically under-informed voters elect scientifically illiterate politicians, Professor David Helfand has written the right book at the right time with the right message. Read it now. The future of our civilization may depend on it., For those with an arts and humanities background, this book offers many valuable lessons.... For everyone else it provides a vital antidote to the ills of misinformation by teaching systematic and rigorous scientific reasoning., David Helfand's Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age gives readers a chance to spend time with one this country's clearest and best critical thinkers. Helfand channels Steven Pinker's ability to dissect language with John Alan Paulos's ability to explain numbers with Richard Dawkins' ability to explain our existence (to obtain food, to avoid being food, and to reproduce) with George Carlin's ability to make us laugh. Using personal anecdotes (he's a Red Sox fan), Helfand teaches us how to think through questions as diverse as why the moon doesn't make us lunatics to why it only takes twenty-three people to have a 50:50 chance that two will have the same birthdays. A real pleasure., A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age is a no-holds-barred paean to the scientific mode of thinking. Helfand's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary, humorously cynical intellect comes through at every turn.
Table of Content
Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction: Information, Misinformation, and Our Planet's Future 1. A Walk in the Park 2. What Is Science? 3. A Sense of Scale Interlude 1: Numbers 4. Discoveries on the Back of an Envelope 5. Insights in Lines and Dots Interlude 2: Language and Logic 6. Expecting the Improbable 7. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics 8. Correlation, Causation . . . Confusion and Clarity 9. Definitional Features of Science 10. Applying Scientific Habits of Mind to Earth's Future 11. What Isn't Science 12. The Triumph of Misinformation; The Peril of Ignorance 13. The Unfinished Cathedral Appendix: Practicing Scientific Habits of Mind Notes Index
Copyright Date
2016
Topic
Probability & Statistics / General, Study & Teaching, General, Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics, Physics / Mathematical & Computational, Research & Methodology
Lccn
2015-034152
Dewey Decimal
500
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Education, Science, Mathematics

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