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A Field Guide To Lies And Statistics, Ato Make Sense of a Complex World,

Hardcover • 2017 • English

A Field Guide To Lies And Statistics, Ato Make Sense of a Complex World,

By Daniel Levitin

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About the book

A guide to critical thinking in the 'post-truth' era, from the author of Sunday Times best-seller The Organized Mind We live in a world of information overload. Facts and figures on absolutely everything are at our fingertips, but are too often biased, distorted, or outright lies. From unemployment figures to voting polls, IQ tests to divorce rates, we're bombarded by seemingly plausible statistics on how people live and what they think. Daniel Levitin teaches us how to effectively ask ourselves...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780241239995

Publisher

Viking

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

A Field Guide To Lies And Statistics, Ato Make Sense of a Complex World,

Format

Hardcover

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