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A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

Paperback • 2019 • English

A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

By Daniel J. Levitin

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About the book

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 bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, grap...Show more

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ISBN

9780593182512

Publisher

Penguin

Published year

2019

Language

English

Original title

A Field Guide to Lies Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

Format

Paperback

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