A survival guide to the misinformation age [electronic resource] : scientific habits of mind / David J. Helfand.
Helfand, D. J. (David J.), 1950- author.
2016
Q172.5.E77 H45 2016eb
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Title A survival guide to the misinformation age [electronic resource] : scientific habits of mind / David J. Helfand.
Author Helfand, D. J. (David J.), 1950- author.
ISBN 9780231541022 (electronic book)
9780231168724
Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : illustrations
Call Number Q172.5.E77 H45 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 500
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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