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Title: How We Know What Isn't So by Thomas Gilovich ISBN: 0-02-911706-2 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 05 March, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A-ha!
Comment: The Sports Illustrated curse is NOT real. Our gut feelings about winning streaks and losing streaks are way off. And there's sort of an illusion that makes punishment look more effective than it probably is and reward look less effective than it probably is (reward has a tougher row to hoe, in fact). These are among Gilovich's more memorable points. Each is backed up with plain reasoning AND hard data.
It's just the kind of book that'll make you THINK about what you're thinking. An excellent start down that path, one we all need to take. I enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. I have re-read parts of it a few times in the years since I first bought it.
Written by a social psychologist for a lay audience. It's well organized and easily digestible as long as you are willing to stop and think every so often as you read.
I'd like to see this book handed out to every new college student, or, maybe better, required reading for every high school student.
Rating: 5
Summary: How People Don't Think
Comment: This is a fascinating discourse on the pitfalls of human reasoning. Gilovich covers everything from the counter-intuitiveness of many facts governing probability, to the effects of absent data, to debunking often reported stories of older research, such as the case of "Little Albert," a toddler who was made to be afraid of white rats, by pairing any contact with white rats with an unpleasant stimulus.
Gilovich has personally conducted numerous research trials exploring the ways people learn and reason, and draws on this background, as well as a thorough command of other research into relevant areas. In one experiment, students were asked to guess their class rankings in regard to leadership abilities: only 2% thought they were below average, while a full 60% thought they were in the top 10%!
Gilovich has a very smooth writing style, and he is writing here for laymen. In spite of the huge amount of valuable information presented, the 215 page book is easy-going, and I think most people would finish it in a few days.
This is a book you will refer back to time and again, so buying a personal copy is a good idea.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hit the nail on the head
Comment: I've read a lot of books on logic, argument, and critical thinking. This is the best one I've read for explaining the psychological reasons behind faultly logic. This book is going on my list of books to read every few years so as to inoculate myself from the described fallibilities in human reasoning. I will be recommending this to everyone I know. Unfortunately, the ones who need to read it the most probably won't.
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Title: Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics by Gary Belsky, Thomas Gilovich ISBN: 0684859386 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 06 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Inevitable Illusions : How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini ISBN: 047115962X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making by Scott Plous ISBN: 0070504776 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $31.87 |
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Title: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer ISBN: 0805070893 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd Carroll, Robert T. Carroll ISBN: 0471272426 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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