Mindware
Subtitle: tools for smart thinking
By: Richard Nisbett
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781846148064; 9780141976280
Subjects: Reasoning; Problem solving; Résolution de problème
Description: 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.

"Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behaviour and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us. Drawing on his own groundbreaking research, Richard Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail to offer a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions. Mindware shows how to reframe common problems - whether professional, business, or personal - in such a way that these powerful scientific and statistical concepts can be applied to them."--Website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Thinking about thought; title: Everything's an inference; title: The power of the situation; title: The rational unconscious; title: pt. 2. The formerly dismal science; title: Should you think like an economist?; title: Spilt milk and free lunch; title: Foiling foibles; title: pt. 3. Coding, counting, correlation, and causality; title: Odds and Ns; title: Linked up; title: pt. 4. Experiments; title: Ignore the HiPPO; title: Experiments natural and experiments proper; title: Eekonomics; title: Don't ask, can't tell; title: pt. 5. Thinking, straight and curved; title: Logic; title: Dialectical reasoning; title: pt. 6. Knowing the world; title: KISS and tell; title: Keeping it real; title: Conclusion: The tools of the lay scientist.