A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age Scientific Habits of Mind 1st Edition by David Helfand 0231168721 9780231168724

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ISBN 10: 0231168721
ISBN 13: 9780231168724
Author: David J. Helfand

Learning how to tell news from fake news from fake fake news: An “important and timely” book on protecting ourselves, and society, from the infodemic (Library Journal).   We have billions of bytes of data at our fingertips. But how much of it is misinformation—or even disinformation? A lot of it is, and your search engine can’t tell the difference.   As a result, an avalanche of misinformation threatens to overwhelm the discourse we so desperately need to address complex social problems such as climate change, the food and water crises, biodiversity collapse, and emerging threats to public health. This book provides an inoculation against the misinformation epidemic by cultivating scientific habits of mind. Anyone can do it—indeed, everyone must do it if our species is to survive on this crowded and finite planet.   This survival guide supplies an essential set of apps for the prefrontal cortex while making science both accessible and entertaining. It will dissolve your fear of numbers, demystify graphs, and elucidate the key concepts of probability, all while celebrating the precise use of language and logic. David Helfand, one of our nation’s leading astronomers and science educators, has taught scientific habits of mind to generations in the classroom, where he continues to wage a provocative battle against sloppy thinking and the encroachment of misinformation.   “Provides a vital antidote to the ills of misinformation by teaching systematic and rigorous scientific reasoning.” —The Times Literary Supplement

A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age Scientific Habits of Mind 1st Table of contents

1. A Walk in the Park
2. What Is Science?
3. A Sense of Scale
Interlude 1: Numbers
4. Discoveries on the Back of an Envelope
5. Insights in Lines and Dots
Interlude 2: Logic and Language
6. Expecting the Improbable
7. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
8. Correlation, Causation … Confusion and Clarity
9. Definitional Features of Science
10. Applying Scientific Habits of Mind to Earth’s Future
11. What Isn’t Science
12. The Triumph of Misinformation; The Perils of Ignorance
13. The Unfinished Cathedral

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