Are You Thinking Clearly

Author : Rolf Dobelli
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062359800
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Thinking Clearly written by Rolf Dobelli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-class thinker counts the 100 ways in which humans behave irrationally, showing us what we can do to recognize and minimize these “thinking errors” to make better decisions and have a better life Despite the best of intentions, humans are notoriously bad—that is, irrational—when it comes to making decisions and assessing risks and tradeoffs. Psychologists and neuroscientists refer to these distinctly human foibles, biases, and thinking traps as “cognitive errors.” Cognitive errors are systematic deviances from rationality, from optimized, logical, rational thinking and behavior. We make these errors all the time, in all sorts of situations, for problems big and small: whether to choose the apple or the cupcake; whether to keep retirement funds in the stock market when the Dow tanks, or whether to take the advice of a friend over a stranger. The “behavioral turn” in neuroscience and economics in the past twenty years has increased our understanding of how we think and how we make decisions. It shows how systematic errors mar our thinking and under which conditions our thought processes work best and worst. Evolutionary psychology delivers convincing theories about why our thinking is, in fact, marred. The neurosciences can pinpoint with increasing precision what exactly happens when we think clearly and when we don’t. Drawing on this wide body of research, The Art of Thinking Clearly is an entertaining presentation of these known systematic thinking errors--offering guidance and insight into everything why you shouldn’t accept a free drink to why you SHOULD walk out of a movie you don’t like it to why it’s so hard to predict the future to why shouldn’t watch the news. The book is organized into 100 short chapters, each covering a single cognitive error, bias, or heuristic. Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity, Confirmation Bias, The It-Gets-Better-Before-It-Gets-Worse Trap, and the Man-With-A-Hammer Tendency. In engaging prose and with real-world examples and anecdotes, The Art of Thinking Clearly helps solve the puzzle of human reasoning.

Author : Matt Warren
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 1529388694
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Thinking Clearly? written by Matt Warren and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An endlessly fascinating tour of the many different factors influencing our decision-making and reasoning' David Robson, author of The Expectation Effect 'An eye-opening and engaging richness of information that gives us a detailed insight into the strengths and weaknesses of human behaviour' Melissa Hogenboom, author of The Motherhood Complex Do emotions really cloud your thinking? Are habits holding you back? Is AI manipulating your mind? Does IQ help you think better? Every one of our thoughts, actions, moods and decisions is shaped by a whole array of factors, most of which we don't pay any attention to. From culture, time and language to genetics, technology and the microorganisms living inside us - even our own unconscious routines and habits - it's clear that we aren't always in the driving seat. The good news is that by better understanding the external and internal forces at work, we can minimise their impact on our lives. Drawing on rigorous interdisciplinary research, leading science journalists Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren bring us extraordinary stories and studies that open our eyes to the inner workings of the mind, challenge our thought processes and improve our decision-making. Most of all, Are You Thinking Clearly? is a rallying cry to know yourself, think broadly, think boldly - and to listen. 'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand why their beliefs, mistakes, emotions and intuitions are the way they are' Richard Gray, BBC Future

Author : Tom Rosenstiel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231500912
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Clearly written by Tom Rosenstiel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-13 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading professional journalists and classroom-tested at schools of journalism, Thinking Clearly is designed to provoke conversation about the issues that shape the production and presentation of the news in the twenty-first century. These case studies depict real-life moments when people working in the news had to make critical decisions. Bearing on questions of craft, ethics, competition, and commerce, they cover a range of topics—the commercial imperatives of newsroom culture, standards of verification, the competition of public and private interests, including the question of privacy—in a variety of key episodes: Watergate, the Richard Jewell case, John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign, and the Columbine shooting, among others.

Author : Jerry Stocking
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962959370
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Clearly written by Jerry Stocking and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hal Mooz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111817271X
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Up Your Mind written by Hal Mooz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proven decision-making system guides readers to the rightchoice every time Make Up Your Mind provides author Hal Mooz’sproprietary system for decision making. This approach consists ofthree decision-making models, including: the Decision Type Model,which characterizes what is at stake with any decision; theDecision Solution Model, which frames the most suitablealternatives; and the Decision Judgment Model, which provides tenbases for judging alternatives, some of which may be defensible andothers that, although popular, may not be defensible to challenge.These models guide the reader's thinking to the most promisingalternatives and the best choice. A decision fit person enjoys the benefit of thinking clearlyabout decisions and their outcomes and is competent to actknowledgeably and decisively about creating the alternatives andjudging them appropriately. Become decision fit. Think clearly and act decisively on yourown decisions and help others to do the same.

Author : Jill LeBlanc
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393972184
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Clearly written by Jill LeBlanc and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tune with the needs of students, Thinking Clearly focuses squarely on core issues of critical reasoning.

Author : Jay F. Rosenberg
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872204263
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Clearly about Death written by Jay F. Rosenberg and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jay Rosenberg's penetrating and persuasively argued analysis of the central metaphysical and moral questions pertaining to death has been updated and revised to expand and deepen several of its key arguments and to address conceptual developments of the past fifteen years. Among the topics discussed are: Life After Death; The Limits of Theorizing; The Limits of Imagination; Death and Personhood; Values and Rights; Mercy Killing; Prolonging Life; Rational Suicide; and One's Own Death. Rosenberg's prose is lucid, lively, thoroughly absorbing, and accessible to introductory-level readers. Essential reading for anyone interested in reflecting on this engaging topic.

Author : Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691215014
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Clearly with Data written by Ethan Bueno de Mesquita and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to data science that emphasizes critical thinking over statistical techniques An introduction to data science or statistics shouldn’t involve proving complex theorems or memorizing obscure terms and formulas, but that is exactly what most introductory quantitative textbooks emphasize. In contrast, Thinking Clearly with Data focuses, first and foremost, on critical thinking and conceptual understanding in order to teach students how to be better consumers and analysts of the kinds of quantitative information and arguments that they will encounter throughout their lives. Among much else, the book teaches how to assess whether an observed relationship in data reflects a genuine relationship in the world and, if so, whether it is causal; how to make the most informative comparisons for answering questions; what questions to ask others who are making arguments using quantitative evidence; which statistics are particularly informative or misleading; how quantitative evidence should and shouldn’t influence decision-making; and how to make better decisions by using moral values as well as data. Filled with real-world examples, the book shows how its thinking tools apply to problems in a wide variety of subjects, including elections, civil conflict, crime, terrorism, financial crises, health care, sports, music, and space travel. Above all else, Thinking Clearly with Data demonstrates why, despite the many benefits of our data-driven age, data can never be a substitute for thinking. An ideal textbook for introductory quantitative methods courses in data science, statistics, political science, economics, psychology, sociology, public policy, and other fields Introduces the basic toolkit of data analysis—including sampling, hypothesis testing, Bayesian inference, regression, experiments, instrumental variables, differences in differences, and regression discontinuity Uses real-world examples and data from a wide variety of subjects Includes practice questions and data exercises

Author : Matt Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529388688
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are You Thinking Clearly? written by Matt Warren and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every one of our thoughts, actions, moods and decisions is shaped by a whole array of factors, most of which we don't pay any attention to. From culture, time and language to genetics, technology and the microorganisms living inside us - even our own unconscious routines and habits - it's clear that we aren't always in the driving seat.How is it possible to think clearly when the human brain is so biased and easily swayed? And when should you listen to others rather than 'think for yourself', take a step back and admit you're wrong? The good news is that by better understanding the external and internal forces at work, we can minimise their impact on our lives. Drawing on rigorous interdisciplinary research, leading science journalists Miriam Frankel and Matt Warren bring us extraordinary stories and studies that open our eyes to the inner workings of the mind, challenge our thought processes and improve our decision-making. Most of all, Are You Thinking Clearly? is a rallying cry to think broadly, think boldly - and to listen.

Author : Yeng Tan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mister Yam written by Yeng Tan and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mister Yam - a twentysomething year old man disillusioned with corporate work in San Francisco - would find his life forever changed after an inexplicable phone call with a strange woman and an invitation to a musical show. Thus begins a series of events that would take Mister Yam chasing nameless figures across the country; solving a mystery only he can explain.