Mindware [electronic resource] : Tools for Smart Thinking

Nisbett, Richard E.2021

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Summary

Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home, work and school to help us think smarter and more effectively about our behaviour and the world around us. Surprisingly, many of these ideas 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 audiobook, 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 analysing everyday situations.