Critical Thinking

A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age by Daniel J. Levitin

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book was okay but far from spectacular. If you took statistics in university then the entire first section is just a reminder of what you already know. The second part is a little more interesting dealing as it does with logical fallacies but while the specific names might be unfamiliar, the logic is pretty well known. One thing that is useful is the inclusion of quite a number of fact-checking URLs.

Basically this book is a good reminder of what you probably already know but may have forgotten. Ultimately, however, there is no easy route. Critical thinking is difficult, time consuming and easy to overlook in a fast-paced world. Unfortunately its absence creates all sorts of problems many of which we are observing in the world today.



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