Book
Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard E. Nisbett.
A psychology expert offers a tool kit for thinking more clearly and making better decisions, explaining how to reframe problems using simplified concepts from science and statistics, including the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, and causation and correlation.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374112677
- ISBN: 0374112673
- Physical Description: 320 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First [edition].
- Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Thinking about thought -- Everything's an inference -- Out of context or the situation -- The rational unconscious -- The formerly dismal science -- Should you think like an economist? -- Spilt milk and free lunch -- Foiling foibles -- Coding, counting, correlation, and causality -- Odds and Ns -- Linked up -- Experiments -- Ignore the hippo -- Experiments natural and experiments proper -- Eekonomics -- Don't ask, can't tell -- Thinking, straight and curved -- Logic -- Dialecticism -- Knowing the world -- Kiss and tell -- Keeping it real -- Whom to believe. |
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| Subject: | Reasoning. Thought and thinking. |
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