The Power of Logical Thinking by Vos Savant, Marilyn
The Power of Logical Thinking by Vos Savant, Marilyn

The Power of Logical Thinking

A classic of critical thinking that is now more urgent than ever! America has become a society...
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Author: Marilyn Vos Savant
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Language: English
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The Power of Logical Thinking by Vos Savant, Marilyn

The Power of Logical Thinking

$51.74
The Power of Logical Thinking by Vos Savant, Marilyn

The Power of Logical Thinking

$51.74
Author: Marilyn Vos Savant
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A classic of critical thinking that is now more urgent than ever!

America has become a society devoid of understanding of the power of logic and numbers. All too often, we rely on our intuition or on empty statistics to formulate opinions about ourselves and our world. As a result of inadequate schooling in the art of reasoning, we have become a people unable to make truly logical decisions, intimidated by numbers, and too passive to reverse this disturbing trend.

The Power of Logical Thinking addresses these concerns, illustrating how you can reason better, how numbers are used against you, and how your vote may be affected. Marilyn vos Savant writes, We can't trust our intuitions, our statisticians, or our politicians. The 1992 presidential campaign is a case in point. Numbers were used, abused, and misused by the candidates as never before in the history of our country. Voters were easily manipulated, setting a precedent for years to come.

Part One of The Power of Logical Thinking explains the most provocative of the counterintuitive problems that Marilyn vos Savant has encountered in recent years, such as the now classic Monty Hall Dilemma, the improbability of winning the lottery, and much more.

Part Two shows how statistics have quietly become a tool of persuasion instead of education. In addition to exploring puzzles and paradoxes, this sections explains the underlying reasoning to help you answer questions such as which surgery should you choose? What are your odds of having breast cancer? Do drug-testing and AIDS-testing give you yes/no answers?

In Part Three, vos Savant illustrates how our votes are affected, with examples of selective logic, specious reasoning, and outright sophistry collected from the campaigns of the '80s and '90s...techniques that politicians and corporations still use to manipulate voters today.

Author: Marilyn Vos Savant
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 05/01/2002
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780312156275

About the Author

Marilyn vos Savant's Ask Marilyn column is featured in Parade magazine every Sunday. She lives in New York City.




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