Bibliograph

Mindware, tools for smart thinking, Richard E. Nisbett

Type

Label

Mindware, tools for smart thinking, Richard E. Nisbett

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-305) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mindware

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

889164994

Responsibility statement

Richard E. Nisbett

Sub title

tools for smart thinking

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Thinking about thought. Everything's an inference ; The power of the situation ; The rational unconscious -- The formerly dismal science. Should you think like an economist? ; Spilt milk and free lunch ; Foiling foibles -- Coding, counting, correlation, and causality. Odds and Ns ; Linked up -- Experiments. Ignore the HiPPO ; Experiments natural and experiments proper ; Eekonomics ; Don't ask, can't tell -- Thinking, straight and curved. Logic ; Dialecticial reasoning -- Knowing the world. KISS and tell ; Keeping it real -- The tools of the lay scientist

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