A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age

Höfundur David J. Helfand

Útgefandi Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)

Snið ePub

Print ISBN 9780231168724

Útgáfa 0

Útgáfuár 2016

590 kr.

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  • Cover 
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents 
  • 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: Logic and Language
  • 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 Perils of Ignorance
  • 13. The Unfinished Cathedral
  • Appendix: Practicing Scientific Habits of Mind
  • Notes
  • Index
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