The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives
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A classic of critical thinking that is now more urgent than ever! America has become a society devoid of understanding of the power of logic and numbers. All too often, we rely on our intuition or on empty statistics to formulate opinions about ourselves and our world. As a result of inadequate schooling in the art of reasoning, we have become a people unable to make truly logical decisions, intimidated by numbers, and too passive to reverse this disturbing trend. The Power of Logical Thinking addresses these concerns, illustrating how you can reason better, how numbers are used against you, and how your vote may be affected. Marilyn vos Savant writes, "We can't trust our intuitions, our statisticians, or our politicians. The 1992 presidential campaign is a case in point. Numbers were used, abused, and misused by the candidates as never before in the history of our country. Voters were easily manipulated, setting a precedent for years to come." Part One of The Power of Logical Thinking explains the most provocative of the counterintuitive problems that Marilyn vos Savant has encountered in recent years, such as the now classic "Monty Hall Dilemma," the improbability of winning the lottery, and much more. Part Two shows how statistics have quietly become a tool of persuasion instead of education. In addition to exploring puzzles and paradoxes, this sections explains the underlying reasoning to help you answer questions such as which surgery should you choose? What are your odds of having breast cancer? Do drug-testing and AIDS-testing give you yes/no answers? In Part Three, vos Savant illustrates how our votes are affected, with examples of selective logic, specious reasoning, and outright sophistry collected from the campaigns of the '80s and '90s...techniques that politicians and corporations still use to manipulate voters today. Review: This Book will get You thinking. - There are many short stories and behind the scenes accounts to keep you engaged. It offers some truly eye opening accounts of absurdly stupid policies, political agendas, and flagrant sexist opinions that were held in the professions, beyond what anyone could imagine today. Along with countless tidbits of information that keep you on your toes and make you really think through some basic math and word problems. Bring your reading comprehension A-game, and you will do fine. This might be a top 10 book of all time. I love it! Review: Need help seeing through the Lies we are being given every day!? - After many Philosophy courses, Such as Logic, I think that thisBook would be of benefit to many people.....and goodness knows that many could benefit from such exposure! We all need help trying to cut through the lies, fabrications and twisted reasoning handed out by Politicians and pollsters! There is not enough clear thinking in our population today
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J**N
This Book will get You thinking.
There are many short stories and behind the scenes accounts to keep you engaged. It offers some truly eye opening accounts of absurdly stupid policies, political agendas, and flagrant sexist opinions that were held in the professions, beyond what anyone could imagine today. Along with countless tidbits of information that keep you on your toes and make you really think through some basic math and word problems. Bring your reading comprehension A-game, and you will do fine. This might be a top 10 book of all time. I love it!
R**N
Need help seeing through the Lies we are being given every day!?
After many Philosophy courses, Such as Logic, I think that thisBook would be of benefit to many people.....and goodness knows that many could benefit from such exposure! We all need help trying to cut through the lies, fabrications and twisted reasoning handed out by Politicians and pollsters! There is not enough clear thinking in our population today
R**S
everybody should study this book
Book is not always easy or interesting to read, BUT everybody should try. How can our society cannot improve if we're all illogical? As author points out; we delegate our dumb politicians to spend $trillions$.
M**W
This was a fun read with many practical applications for people seeking to ...
Marilyn's a real smarty pants, and in this book takes pleasure in exposing how our intuitive thinking about even seemingly 'simple' and 'obvious' things can sometimes be hopelessly incorrect--especially when numbers and statistics are in play. This was a fun read with many practical applications for people seeking to understand the world around them through the acquisition and analysis of numerical data (something I believe all people do, albeit to differing degrees).
M**R
A collection of her columns Ask Marilyn
It's just collection of Ask Marilyn columns organized into chapters. Wouldn't have bought it if that was clear from the product page or book cover. Yet to find a lesson in the Art of Reasoning promised by the book's cover.
V**H
The section on politicians and statistics is eye-opening, Leonard ...
The section on politicians and statistics is eye-opening, Leonard Pitts wrote some years ago in his newspaper column a piece titled "the Lost Art of Critical Thinking" and vos Savant's book brought that article to mind.
M**S
On time and good condition
I enjoyed my book
J**H
Really makes you think
A fascinating discussion about how our minds make false assumptions with many practical examples and puzzles.
A**R
Know what the book is about before buying it
I read many reviews about the book and I knew what to expect, more or less. It is not an essay, but a collection of problems that the author came across while writing on her column, most of which are counter-intuitive. Along with many of those posts in the column, she adds the wrong answers from many readers, especially when they ridicule her for being wrong -she wasn't, of course-. That's the book. Many interesting and (mostly) challenging problems -with their answers- with some occasional responses from people here and there, just to show how easy is it for the human mind to err. There is no argument, no hypothesis, no discussions, but many of the problems are fascinating. If what I described is exactly what you want, buy the book; if you expect something else, don't.
O**K
Ok
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A**R
Good book for students
Good book for students and all for improve logical thinking
C**N
Facilidad al leer.
Es un libro excelente, te cambia la perspectiva sobre la vida actual. Me ha sido muy útil. Gracias.
C**A
Thankful for this marvelous masterpiece
They should give this book as a gift to everyone that want to learn to think properly. Ms. Savant should’ve written more books. I’m totally and happily thankful for this marvelous masterpiece.
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