A guide to critical thinking in the information age, from the bestselling author of The Organized Mind.
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, trained at Stanford University Medical School and the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain On Music (Dutton, 2006), published in nineteen languages, and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs (Dutton, 2008) and The Organized Mind (Viking, 2014). Currently he is Dean of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools at KGI in San Francisco, and a faculty member at the Center for Executive Education in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.%%%Dr. Daniel J. Levitin has a PhD in Psychology, training at Stanford University Medical School and the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of the No. 1 bestseller This Is Your Brain on Music (Dutton, 2006), published in nineteen languages, and the bestsellers The World in Six Songs (Dutton, 2008) and The Organized Mind (Viking, 2014). Currently he is a James McGill Professor of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience and Music at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
In a post-truth world, Levitin's book is an invaluable primer on
how to sort the fact from the fiction
*Sunday Times*
As a lucid guide to critical thinking about statistics, information
and assertion it is profoundly welcome
*Observer*
The world is awash with data, but not always with accurate
information. A Field Guide to Lies does a terrific job of
illustrating the difference between the two with precision-and
delightful good humour
*Charles Wheelan, author of 'Naked Economics'*
Daniel Levitin's field guide is a critical thinking primer for our
shrill, data-drenched age. From the way averages befuddle to the
logical fallacies that sneak by us, every page is enlightening
*Charles Duhigg, author of 'The Power of Habit' and 'Smarter,
Faster, Better'*
A guide for those who wish to test the authenticity of information
that inundates us from every corner, dark and light, of the Web
*Washington Post*
A Field Guide to Lies by the neuroscientist Daniel Levitin lays out
the many ways in which each of us can be fooled and misled by
numbers and logic, as well as the modes of critical thinking we
will need to overcome this
*Wall Street Journal*
Smart, timely, and massively useful
*Globe and Mail, Toronto*
Much like Nate Silver's (New York Times bestselling!) The Signal
and the Noise, Levitin's is that rare book that makes statistics
both understandable and at times even intriguing
*MacLean's*
A valuable primer on critical thinking that convincingly
illustrates the prevalence of misinformation in everyday life
*Publishers Weekly*
The timing could not be better...a survival manual for the
post-factual error. Levitin offers a set of intellectual tools to
help distinguish the real from the unreal, and often surreal ...
both engaging and rewarding
*Literary Review of Canada*
Valuable tools for anyone willing to evaluate claims and get to the
truth of the matter
*Kirkus Reviews*
Misinformation is a curse of the information age, and Levitin
offers blow-by-blow demonstrations of how words, numbers and
graphics can be manipulated to distort truth
*Stanford Magazine*
Just as Strunk and White taught us how to communicate better, the
Field Guide to Lies is an indispensable guide to thinking
better.
*Jasper Rine, Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development, UC
Berkeley*
Regardless of one's political persuasion (apolitical, third party,
democratic, or republican) all individuals of this nation would
benefit from making the effort to read and understand the concepts
presented in this book. Eminently easy to read.
*Portland Book Review*
Levitin talks about the crucial role of critical thinking and
seeking out the truth in today's media landscape
*NPR Forum*
I could not put this book down. I am so impressed with Levitin's
writing style, which is clear and simple, unlike much of the murky
stuff that is written by statisticians and many others.
*Morris Olitsky, former Vice President, Market Research and
Analysis, Prudential Financial, Statistician, U.S.D.A.*
This is a wonderful book. It covers so many of the insights of
science, logic, and statistics that the public needs to know, yet
are sadly neglected in the education that most of us receive.
*Edward K. Cheng, Tarkington Chair of Teaching Excellence and
professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School*
Insightful and entertaining-an excellent work
*Gregg Gascon, Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University*
No book could be more timely. An important book for everyone to
read. Essential to where western democracies are going
*Janice Stein, Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs at
the University of Toronto*
More insights per page than any other neuroscientist I know...
smart, important, exquisitely written
*Daniel Gilbert on 'The Organized Mind'*
Deservedly a bestseller
*Independent on 'The Organized Mind'*
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