Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

Paperback – August 2, 2016

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Price
$12.49
Format
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0374536244
Dimensions
5.55 x 0.85 x 8.2 inches
Weight
10.2 ounces

Description

Richard E. Nisbett is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan and one of the world's most respected psychologists. He has received the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the American Psychological Association and many other national and international awards. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently . . . and Why and Intelligence and How to Get It: Why Schools and Cultures Count have won multiple awards and have been translated into many languages.

Features & Highlights

  • Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of these tools remain unknown to most of us.In
  • Mindware
  • , the world-renowned psychologist Richard E. Nisbett presents these ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions. He has made a distinguished career of studying and teaching such powerful problem-solving concepts as the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, sunk costs and opportunity costs, and causation and correlation, probing how best to teach others to use them effectively in their daily lives. In this groundbreaking book, he shows that a course in a given field--statistics or economics, for example--often doesn't work as well as a few minutes of more practical instruction in analyzing everyday situations.
  • Mindware
  • shows how to reframe common problems in such a way that these powerful scientific and statistical concepts can be applied to them. The result is an enlightening and practical guide to the most powerful tools of reasoning ever developed--tools that can easily be used to make better professional, business, and personal decisions.

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Great read

Even though statistics is not usually an interesting read, I found this book very informative and easy to follow. I read it in conjunction with an online course but feel it can "'stand alone." The format is clear and explanations by the author practical and easy to follow. I was already familiar with most of the subject matter having been subjected to three different statistics courses during my undergraduate and graduate education, but Dr. Nisbett's presentation by far the most easy to take.
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Inferences, Beliefs, and Insights.

The most important message of Mr. Nisbett in this book: "Our beliefs are often badly mistaken, we're way too confident about our ability to acquire new knowledge that accurately characterizes the world, and our behavior often fails to advance our interests and those of people we care about."

The chapter summaries are very useful in focusing on the specific insights.

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