An edition of Mindware
(2015)
Mindware
tools for smart thinking
First edition.
by Richard E. Nisbett
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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.
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Mindware: tools for smart thinking
2015, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
- First edition.
0374112673 9780374112677
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Table of Contents
Thinking about thought. Everything's an inference ; The power of 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
The tools of the lay scientist.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index.
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