Mindware
Subtitle: tools for smart thinking
By: Richard E. Nisbett
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780374112677
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Thought and thinking; Reasoning
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-305) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thinking about thought. Everything's an inference ; The power of the situation ; The rational unconscious; title: The formerly dismal science. Should you think like an economist? ; Spilt milk and free lunch ; Foiling foibles; title: Coding, counting, correlation, and causality. Odds and Ns ; Linked up; title: Experiments. Ignore the HiPPO ; Experiments natural and experiments proper ; Eekonomics ; Don't ask, can't tell; title: Thinking, straight and curved. Logic ; Dialecticism; title: Knowing the world. KISS and tell ; Keeping it real; title: The tools of the lay scientist.