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Daniel J. Levitin, "A Field Guide to Lies"
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September 14, 2016
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57:49Now PlayingFrom This is Your Brain on Music to The World in Six Songs to The Organized Mind, Levitin’s bestselling works on cognitive science have been both fascinating and instructive. In his fourth book, the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience at McGill University offers an invaluable guide to negotiating the stream of information in the age of Big Data. Infoliteracy means charting a course between passive acceptance and reflexive dismissal of the ongoing barrage of facts, charts, and statistics; developing critical thinking means checking those facts, assessing the source of the charts, and testing the plausibility of the statistics.
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