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• Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
• File Size : 27,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 2012

Debunks popular beliefs and reveals the facts about political, cultural, scientific, and technological misconceptions, addressing such topics as Napoleon's stature, the danger of quicksand, and caffeine's effects on the body.

• Publisher : eBookIt.com
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 19 February 2012

This book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 January 2021

Critical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us—whether in the media,

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Falsehood and Fallacy emphasizes that in our politically divided landscape, we all need to be able to read and research more critically in order to make well-reasoned arguments.

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 54,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 August 2021

There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines.

• Publisher : Basic Books
• File Size : 55,9 Mb
• Release Date : 22 March 2011

Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the

• Publisher : MAA
• File Size : 22,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 June 2000

Through hard experience mathematicians have learned to subject even the most 'evident' assertions to rigorous scrutiny, as intuition can often be misleading. This book collects and analyses a mass of

• Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
• File Size : 48,8 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1985

• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• File Size : 54,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2012

Nontechnical survey helps improve ability to judge statistical evidence and to make better-informed decisions. Discusses common pitfalls: unrealistic estimates, improper comparisons, premature conclusions, and faulty thinking about probability. 1974 edition.

• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 October 2012

Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language, including being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's paradox). 1982 edition.