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Knowledge resistance in high-choice information environments
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ISBN: 1000599124 0367629259 1003111475 1000599167 Year: 2022 Publisher: New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis (Unlimited),

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This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics, news, and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge, the book offers insights into the processes that influence the supply of misinformation and factors influencing how and why people expose themselves to and process information that may support or contradict their beliefs and attitudes. A team of authors from across a range of disciplines address the phenomena of knowledge resistance and its causes and consequences at the macro- as well as the micro-level. The chapters take a philosophical look at the notion of knowledge resistance, before moving on to discuss issues such as misinformation and fake news, psychological mechanisms such as motivated reasoning in processes of selective exposure and attention, how people respond to evidence and fact-checking, the role of political partisanship, political polarization over factual beliefs, and how knowledge resistance might be counteracted. This book will have a broad appeal to scholars and students interested in knowledge resistance, primarily within philosophy, psychology, media and communication, and political science, as well as journalists and policymakers.


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Who wrote that? : authorship controversies from Moses to Sholokhov
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ISBN: 1501749722 1501750828 1501749714 1501749706 9781501749711 9781501749728 9781501749704 9781501750823 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ithaca : Northern Illinois University Press,

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'Who Wrote That?' examines nine authorship controversies, providing an introduction to particular disputes and teaching students how to assess historical documents, archival materials, and apocryphal stories, as well as internet sources and news. Donald Ostrowski does not argue in favor of one side over another but focuses on the principles of attribution used to make each case. While furthering the field of authorship studies, this text provides an essential resource for instructors at all levels in various subjects.


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Fighting Fake News : A Generational Approach
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ISBN: 3036557202 3036557199 Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The book focuses on how different generations perceive fake news, including young and middle-age groups of people, multiple age groups, university students and adults in general, elementary students, children, and adolescents. It provides insights into the different methodologies available with which to research fake news from a generational perspective.


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Public Choice
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ISBN: 3039212729 3039212710 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Interest in politics and the political process—topics that economists consider to be the purview of the sub-field of study known as public choice—appears to be as high as ever. This Special Issue aims to provide a collection of high-quality studies covering many of the varied topics traditionally investigated in the growing field of public choice economics. These include expressive and instrumental voting, checks and balances in the enforcement of rules, electoral disproportionality, foreign aid and political freedom, voting cycles, (in)stability of political ideology, federal spending on environmental goods, pork-barrel and general appropriations spending, politics and taxpayer funding for professional sports arenas, and political scandal and “friends-and-neighbors” voting in general elections. In bringing these topics together in one place, this Special Issue offers a mix of conceptual/formal and empirical studies in public choice economics.


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Pseudoscience : the conspiracy against science
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ISBN: 9780262037426 9780262537049 0262037424 0262537044 0262344815 0262344823 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge: MIT Press,

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In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science from fake? This book examines pseudoscience from a variety of perspectives, through case studies, analysis, and personal accounts that show how to recognize pseudoscience, why it is so widely accepted, and how to advocate for real science.


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The joy of science
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ISBN: 069123566X Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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Quantum physicist, New York Times bestselling author, and BBC host Jim Al-Khalili reveals how 8 lessons from the core of science can help you get the most out of lifeToday’s world is unpredictable and full of contradictions, and navigating its complexities while trying to make the best decisions is far from easy. The Joy of Science presents 8 short lessons on how to unlock the clarity, empowerment, and joy of thinking and living a little more scientifically.In this brief guide to living a more rational life, acclaimed physicist Jim Al-Khalili invites readers to engage with the world as scientists have been trained to do. The scientific method has served humankind well in its quest to see things as they really are, and underpinning the scientific method are core principles that can help us all navigate modern life more confidently. Discussing the nature of truth and uncertainty, the role of doubt, the pros and cons of simplification, the value of guarding against bias, the importance of evidence-based thinking, and more, Al-Khalili shows how the powerful ideas at the heart of the scientific method are deeply relevant to the complicated times we live in and the difficult choices we make.Read this book and discover the joy of science. It will empower you to think more objectively, see through the fog of your own preexisting beliefs, and lead a more fulfilling life.

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Science --- SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Accuracy and precision. --- Anecdotal evidence. --- Appeal to emotion. --- Availability. --- Behavioural sciences. --- Billionaire. --- Body of knowledge. --- Certainty. --- Chemist. --- Cognitive dissonance. --- Confirmation bias. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Convenience. --- Cosmological constant. --- Cultural relativism. --- Discovery (observation). --- Echinus esculentus. --- Education. --- Efficacy. --- Empathy. --- Empirical evidence. --- Everyday life. --- Explanation. --- Fact. --- Fixation (histology). --- Humility. --- Hypothesis. --- IT Works. --- Ideology. --- Illusory superiority. --- Invention. --- Know thyself. --- Logical reasoning. --- Moral relativism. --- Natural science. --- Nature of Science. --- Objectivity (philosophy). --- Objectivity (science). --- Observation. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosophy of science. --- Physicist. --- Prediction. --- Prince Charming. --- Quantum mechanics. --- Rationality. --- Real image. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Reproducibility. --- Result. --- Science. --- Scientific enterprise. --- Scientific evidence. --- Scientific literacy. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific realism. --- Scientific theory. --- Scientist. --- Sense of wonder. --- Special relativity. --- Sustainable living. --- Technology. --- The Better Angels of Our Nature. --- The Nature of Truth. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory. --- Uncertainty. --- Understanding. --- Wishful thinking. --- World view.


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Achterdocht tussen feit en fictie : kritisch omgaan met complottheorieën
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ISBN: 9789057185236 9057185237 Year: 2016 Volume: *1 Publisher: Brussel VUBPRESS

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Complottheorieën zijn alomtegenwoordig, maar de meeste mensen nemen ze niet echt ernstig. Maar wil dat zeggen dat wie een complottheorie aanhangt automatisch een mafketel is? En waarom zouden we tijd en energie steken in het bestuderen van complottheorieën? Worden onze democratie en pers echt bedreigd door schimmige organisaties of zijn het eerder de complottheorieën zelf die ondermijnend werken? Kunnen we ware van gefantaseerde complotten onderscheiden? (https://www.aspeditions.be/nl-be/book/achterdocht-tussen-feit-en-fictie/13935.htm)

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Logic --- wetenschappelijk denken --- kritisch denken --- Philosophy --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Complot, Théories du --- Complotisme --- Conspiracy theories --- Conspirationnisme --- Samenzweringstheorieën --- Théorie conspirationniste --- Théorie du complot --- Théories conspirationnistes --- Théories du complot --- Complottheorieën --- Scepticisme --- Kritisch denken --- BPB9999 --- BP2011 --- desinformatie --- dezinformacja --- disinformaatio --- παραπληροφόρηση --- dezinformáció --- desinformação --- dezinformare --- desinformatsioon --- dezinformācija --- désinformation --- diżinformazzjoni --- дезинформација --- дезинформация --- keqinformim --- dezinformácia --- dezinformacija --- desinformación --- Desinformation --- disinformation --- disinformazione --- dezinformace --- desinformation --- погрешна информација --- viltus ziņa --- falske nyheder --- fausses informations --- lažne vijesti --- nepnieuws --- fejknyheter --- noticias falsas --- ψευδείς ειδήσεις --- știri false --- falošné správy --- aħbarijiet foloz --- notizie false --- fake news --- неточна информација --- álhír --- falešná informace --- nieprawdziwe informacje --- nepravdivá informace --- falska nyheter --- gezielte Falschmeldungen --- libauudised --- fakenieuws --- melagingos naujienos --- hamis információ --- falešné zprávy --- misinformation --- лажна информација --- valeuutiset --- фалшиви новини --- lažne novice --- notícia falsa --- maldināšana --- αναληθές δημοσίευμα --- bulo --- fałszywa informacja --- bufala --- potegavščina --- embuste --- qerq --- невярна информация --- Falschmeldung --- pettus --- canular --- bluff --- измислица --- menzogna --- boato --- melagingi pranešimai --- hoax --- lažna vijest --- Hoax --- Complottheorie --- Scepticisme (filosofie) --- bréagaisnéis --- mal-information --- félretájékoztatás --- škodlivá informácia --- informare rău-voitoare --- informazzjoni ħażina --- informare greșită --- irreführende Information --- misinformaatio --- väärinfo --- zlonamerne informacije --- hamis tájékoztatás --- má informação --- väärä tieto --- mífhaisnéis --- informacja szkodliwa --- neúmyselne nepravdivá informácia --- virheellinen tieto --- bevidst misinformation --- misinformatie --- pogrešna informacija --- miżinformazzjoni --- informação errada --- nepareiza informācija --- εσφαλμένη πληροφόρηση --- maldinoša informācija --- nesprávná informace --- falsk information --- klaidinga informacija --- pakenkti skirta informacija --- información falsa --- informacja wprowadzająca w błąd --- mésinformation --- drochfhaisnéis --- Fehlinformation --- zavádějící informace --- napačne informacije --- malinformazione --- lažna informacija --- Falschinformation --- κακόβουλη πληροφόρηση --- Schadinformation --- información errónea --- cattiva informazione --- complottheorie --- achterdocht --- omgaan met complotdenken --- complottheorieën --- complotdenkers --- samenzwering --- samenzweringstheorieën --- confirmation bias --- bevestigingsvooroordeel --- Karl Popper (1902-1994) --- falsificationisme --- inductie --- scepticisme


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The seven deadly sins of psychology : a manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice : with a new preface by the author
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ISBN: 9780691158907 0691158908 9780691192031 0691192030 9780691192277 0691192278 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Univ. P.,

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Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline - and how to save it. Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research in psychology is based on weak evidence, questionable practices, and sometimes even fraud. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology diagnoses the ills besetting the discipline today and proposes sensible, practical solutions to ensure that it remains a legitimate and reliable science in the years ahead. In this unflinchingly candid manifesto, Chris Chambers draws on his own experiences as a working scientist to reveal a dark side to psychology that few of us ever see. Using the seven deadly sins as a metaphor, he shows how practitioners are vulnerable to powerful biases that undercut the scientific method, how they routinely torture data until it produces outcomes that can be published in prestigious journals, and how studies are much less reliable than advertised. He reveals how a culture of secrecy denies the public and other researchers access to the results of psychology experiments, how fraudulent academics can operate with impunity, and how an obsession with bean counting creates perverse incentives for academics. Left unchecked, these problems threaten the very future of psychology as a science - but help is here. Outlining a core set of best practices that can be applied across the sciences, Chambers demonstrates how all these sins can be corrected by embracing open science, an emerging philosophy that seeks to make research and its outcomes as transparent as possible.

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Psychology --- Psychologie --- Research --- Methodology --- Recherche --- Méthodologie --- Psychology, Clinical. --- Methodology. --- Research. --- Philosophy of science --- Méthodologie --- Recherche. --- Méthodologie. --- Psychological research --- Psychology, Clinical --- Academic publishing. --- Adversarial collaboration. --- Alzheimer's disease. --- Ambiguity. --- American Psychological Association. --- Article processing charge. --- Author. --- Bayes' theorem. --- Bayesian. --- Blog. --- Calculation. --- Career. --- Center for Open Science. --- Cherry picking. --- Cognitive psychology. --- Confirmation bias. --- Counting. --- Criticism. --- Data set. --- Data. --- Edition (book). --- Editorial. --- Effect size. --- Estimation. --- Experiment. --- Experimental psychology. --- Explanation. --- Fallacy. --- False positive rate. --- Finding. --- Fraud. --- Funding. --- Guideline. --- Hypothetico-deductive model. --- Impact factor. --- Independent scientist. --- Institution. --- Jargon. --- John Bargh. --- Law of small numbers. --- Literature. --- Manuscript. --- Meta-analysis. --- Misconduct. --- Narrative. --- Null hypothesis. --- Open science. --- P-value. --- PLOS ONE. --- PLOS. --- Paperback. --- Participant. --- Paywall. --- Peer review. --- Percentage. --- Post hoc analysis. --- Postdoctoral researcher. --- Precognition. --- Prevalence. --- Probability. --- Psychiatry. --- Psychological Science. --- Psychological research. --- Psychologist. --- Psychology. --- Psychonomic Society. --- Publication bias. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Quantity. --- Raw data. --- Reprimand. --- Reproducibility. --- Reputation. --- Requirement. --- Result. --- Reuse. --- Sample Size. --- Sampling (statistics). --- Science. --- Scientific literature. --- Scientific method. --- Scientific misconduct. --- Scientist. --- Scrutiny (journal). --- Scrutiny. --- Sharing. --- Signature. --- Social psychology. --- Statistical hypothesis testing. --- Statistical power. --- Statistical significance. --- Statistician. --- Statistics. --- Suggestion. --- Tilburg University. --- Type I and type II errors. --- Whistleblower. --- Writing. --- Méthodologie.


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Dark data : why what you don't know matters
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ISBN: 0691198853 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing dataIn the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the data we have are never complete, and may be only the tip of the iceberg. Just as much of the universe is composed of dark matter, invisible to us but nonetheless present, the universe of information is full of dark data that we overlook at our peril. In Dark Data, data expert David Hand takes us on a fascinating and enlightening journey into the world of the data we don't see.Dark Data explores the many ways in which we can be blind to missing data and how that can lead us to conclusions and actions that are mistaken, dangerous, or even disastrous. Examining a wealth of real-life examples, from the Challenger shuttle explosion to complex financial frauds, Hand gives us a practical taxonomy of the types of dark data that exist and the situations in which they can arise, so that we can learn to recognize and control for them. In doing so, he teaches us not only to be alert to the problems presented by the things we don’t know, but also shows how dark data can be used to our advantage, leading to greater understanding and better decisions.Today, we all make decisions using data. Dark Data shows us all how to reduce the risk of making bad ones.

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Big data. --- Data sets, Large --- Large data sets --- Data sets --- Missing observations (Statistics). --- Data, Missing (Statistics) --- Missing data (Statistics) --- Missing values (Statistics) --- Observations, Missing (Statistics) --- Values, Missing (Statistics) --- Estimation theory --- Multivariate analysis --- Multiple imputation (Statistics) --- Accuracy and precision. --- Adverse selection. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Anonymity. --- Approximation. --- Arithmetic mean. --- Astronomer. --- Autism. --- Average. --- Awareness. --- Bankruptcy. --- Benford's law. --- Blood pressure. --- Calculation. --- Clinical trial. --- Confidentiality. --- Confirmation bias. --- Credit card. --- Credit score. --- Crime statistics. --- Customer. --- Dark data. --- Data science. --- Data set. --- Database. --- Decision-making. --- Detection. --- Disease. --- Economics. --- Effectiveness. --- Estimation. --- Experimental psychology. --- Explanation. --- Extrapolation. --- Financial transaction. --- Floor effect. --- Fraud. --- General Data Protection Regulation. --- Hypothesis. --- Identifier. --- Identity theft. --- Illustration. --- Imputation (statistics). --- Income. --- Indication (medicine). --- Inference. --- Information asymmetry. --- Insider trading. --- Insurance fraud. --- Insurance. --- Investor. --- Lawsuit. --- Measurement. --- Meta-analysis. --- Misinformation. --- Mismatch. --- Missing data. --- Observational error. --- Obstacle. --- Percentage. --- Plagiarism. --- Prediction. --- Probability. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Pseudonymization. --- Quantity. --- Randomized controlled trial. --- Randomness. --- Respondent. --- Result. --- Rounding. --- Salary. --- Sample Size. --- Sampling (statistics). --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Significant figures. --- Simulation. --- Skewness. --- Social science. --- Statistic. --- Statistical hypothesis testing. --- Statistician. --- Statistics. --- Suggestion. --- Symptom. --- Synthetic data. --- Tax avoidance. --- Tax. --- Technology. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Uncertainty. --- Unemployment. --- Variable (mathematics). --- Wealth. --- Website. --- Writing. --- Year. --- Missing observations (Statistics)


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What makes us smart : the computational logic of human cognition
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ISBN: 0691225990 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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At the heart of human intelligence rests a fundamental puzzle: How are we incredibly smart and stupid at the same time? No existing machine can match the power and flexibility of human perception, language, and reasoning. Yet, we routinely commit errors that reveal the failures of our thought processes. 'What Makes Us Smart' makes sense of this paradox by arguing that our cognitive errors are not haphazard. Rather, they are the inevitable consequences of a brain optimized for efficient inference and decision making within the constraints of time, energy, and memory - in other words, data and resource limitations. Framing human intelligence in terms of these constraints, Samuel Gershman shows how a deeper computational logic underpins the 'stupid' errors of human cognition.

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Cognition --- Cognitive psychology. --- Age factors. --- Psychology, Cognitive --- Cognitive science --- Psychology --- Age factors in cognition --- Ability, Influence of age on --- Cognition. --- Intellect. --- Human intelligence --- Intelligence --- Mind --- Ability --- Thought and thinking --- Accuracy and precision. --- Action potential. --- Ad hoc hypothesis. --- Ad hominem. --- Adaptive bias. --- Almost surely. --- Alternative hypothesis. --- Altruism. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Approximation. --- Attractiveness. --- Bayes' theorem. --- Bayesian inference. --- Bayesian probability. --- Bayesian. --- Behavior. --- Circular reasoning. --- Cognitive flexibility. --- Cognitive style. --- Commitment device. --- Confidence. --- Confirmation bias. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Controllability. --- Counterintuitive. --- Credibility. --- Decision-making. --- Effectiveness. --- Efficacy. --- Efficiency. --- Efficient coding hypothesis. --- Efficient frontier. --- Estimation. --- Expected value. --- Explanation. --- Fair coin. --- Fair market value. --- Gimmick. --- Guessing. --- Heuristic. --- Hot Hand. --- Human intelligence. --- Hypothesis. --- Illusion of control. --- Inductive bias. --- Inference. --- Intelligent design. --- Learnability. --- Lightness (philosophy). --- Likelihood function. --- Logical extreme. --- Logical reasoning. --- Moral hazard. --- Motivated reasoning. --- Mutual exclusivity. --- Natural approach. --- Normative. --- Observation. --- Observational learning. --- Of Miracles. --- Opportunity cost. --- Optimism bias. --- Optimism. --- Our Choice. --- Pairwise comparison. --- Perfect rationality. --- Physical attractiveness. --- Point estimation. --- Politeness. --- Positive feedback. --- Predictability. --- Prediction. --- Predictive coding. --- Predictive power. --- Principle of rationality. --- Prior probability. --- Probability. --- Prosocial behavior. --- Quantity. --- Rational agent. --- Rational choice theory. --- Rationality. --- Reason. --- Reinforcement learning. --- Result. --- Self-control. --- Sophistication. --- Spontaneous recovery. --- Strong inference. --- Suggestion. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Truth value. --- Uncertainty. --- Utility. --- Value of information. --- With high probability. --- PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition --- COMPUTERS / Logic Design

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