TY - BOOK ID - 78642122 TI - A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age : Scientific Habits of Mind PY - 2016 SN - 0231541023 9780231541022 9780231168724 0231168721 PB - New York, NY : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Errors, Scientific. KW - Science KW - Statistics KW - Missing observations (Statistics) KW - Data, Missing (Statistics) KW - Missing data (Statistics) KW - Missing values (Statistics) KW - Observations, Missing (Statistics) KW - Values, Missing (Statistics) KW - Estimation theory KW - Multivariate analysis KW - Multiple imputation (Statistics) KW - Scientific method KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Mistakes, Scientific KW - Scientific errors KW - Errors KW - Methodology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78642122 AB - We live in the Information Age, with billions of bytes of data just two swipes away. Yet how much of this is mis- 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. ER -