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Mindware : tools for smart thinking / Richard Nisbett.

by Nisbett, Richard E.

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Doubleday Canada, 2015.

Problem solving.

Decision making.

9780385680998 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Tools for smart thinking

viii, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.

"Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be applied to our lives at home and 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. Psychologist Richard Nisbett offers a tool kit for better thinking and wiser decisions. He has studied and taught powerful problem-solving concepts such 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. 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. How to reframe common problems in such a way that these powerful scientific and statistical concepts can be applied to them. 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. Richard Nisbett is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan"--Provided by publisher.

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