Fallacies


How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
Official (ISC)2 Guide to the CISSP CBK
The Ultimate Proof of Creation
Conquer Logical Fallacies: 28 Nuggets Of Knowledge To Nurture Your Reasoning Skills (Critical Thinking & Logic Mastery)
Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies - Academic Edition
The Fallacy Detective: Thirty-Six Lessons on How to Recognize Bad Reasoning, 2nd Edition
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Criss Jami
As for the majority, it is not so much race as it is political affiliation that really divides it today. What was once an issue of physical difference is now one of intellectual difference. Men have yet to master disagreeing without flashing all their frustrations that come with it; the conservative will throw half-truths while the liberal will throw insults. Combine these and what do you get? A dishonest mockery of a country.
Criss Jami, Healology

Results of a recent survey of 74 chief executive officers indicate that there may be a link between childhood pet ownership and future career success. Fully 94% of the CEOs, all of them employed within Fortune 500 companies, had possessed a dog, a cat, or both, as youngsters. The respondents asserted that pet ownership had helped them to develop many of the positive character traits that make them good managers today, including responsibility, empathy, respect for other living beings, generosit ...more
Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

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