A survival guide to the misinformation age : scientific habits of mind /

"This book provides an inoculation against the misinformation epidemic by cultivating scientific habits of mind. From dissolving our fear of numbers and demystifying graphs, to elucidating the key concepts of probability and the use of precise language and logic, Helfand supplies an essential s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Helfand, D. J. (David J.), 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Temas:
Errors, Scientific.
Science > Methodology.
Statistics > Methodology.
Missing observations (Statistics)
Erreurs scientifiques.
Sciences > Méthodologie.
Observations manquantes (Statistique)
EDUCATION > Teaching Methods & Materials > Science & Technology.
Informationsgesellschaft
Desinformation
Wissenschaft
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Information, misinformation, and our planet's future
  • A walk in the park
  • What is science?
  • A sense of scale
  • Interlude 1. Numbers
  • Discoveries on the back of an envelope
  • Insights in lines and dots
  • Interlude 2. Logic and language
  • Expecting the improbable
  • Lies, damned lies, and statistics
  • Correlation, causation ... confusion and clarity
  • Definitional features of science
  • Applying scientific habits of mind to Earth's future
  • What isn't science
  • The triumph of misinformation, the perils of ignorance
  • The unfinished cathedral
  • Appendix. Practicing scientific habits of mind.

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