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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Discusses why people make bad judgments and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.
Author
Language
English
Description
Why do smart people make irrational decisions every day? The answers will surprise you. This book is a look at why we all make illogical decisions. Why can a 50-cent aspirin do what a penny aspirin can't? If an item is "free" it must be a bargain, right? Why is everything relative, even when it shouldn't be? How do our expectations influence our actual opinions and decisions? In this book, the author, a behavioral economist cuts to the heart of our...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading announcements, statistics, graphs, and written reports revealing the ways lying weasels can use them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The ways animals and people use and keep their teeth healthy are explored in this title in Blue Apple's Think About...series. By contrasting the behavior of people and animals, the series helps young children understand what makes humans, and themselves, unique."--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can't...
Author
Series
Monkey and Cake volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Monkey has a big box, which he tells Cake has a cat inside, but only when the box is closed; Cake suggest that maybe it is a dinosaur instead, and the two friends puzzle over how they can solve the problem of finding out what is in the box, if it is always empty when opened.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Can Prince Veera and his best friend, Suku, outsmart the king's trickiest subjects?"--
In these tales inspired by traditional Indian folktales, Prince Veera and his best friend Suku are given the opportunity to preside over the court of his father, King Bheema. Some of the subjects' complaints are easy to address, but others are much more challenging. How should they handle the case of the merchant who wants to charge people for enjoying the smells...
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