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A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age – Scientific Habits of Mind de David Helfand

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age – Scientific Habits of Mind

Autor David Helfand
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 feb 2016
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231168724
ISBN-10: 0231168721
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 55 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 163 x 239 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

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Cuprins

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