Discusses why people make bad judgements and how to make better ones by reducing the influence of "noise"--variables that can cause bias in decision making--and draws on examples in many fields, including medicine, law, economic forecasting, forensic science, strategy, and personnel selection.

"This eBook provides techniques for developing your critical reasoning skills, and will show you specific techniques of thinking clearly and logically, in an easy 20-step program. Each step takes just 20 minutes a day." --

"MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan isn't one to avoid arguments. He relishes them, as the lifeblood of democracy and the only surefire way to establish the truth. Arguments help us solve problems, uncover new ideas we might not have considered, and nudge our disagreements toward mutual understanding. A good argument, made in good faith, has intrinsic value-and can also simply be fun. Arguments are everywhere-and especially given the fierce debates we're all embroiled...

From The New York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a primer to the critical thinking that is more necessary now than ever.
We are bombarded with more information each day than our brains can process—especially in election season. It's raining bad data, half-truths, and even outright lies. New York Times bestselling author Daniel J. Levitin shows how to recognize misleading...

"In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre tells the story of his own adventures in talking face to face with science deniers and their victims-including a Flat Earth convention in Denver, coal miners in rural Pennsylvania, and fishermen in the Maldives-and what he learned from the experience"--

"Do you want to improve your reasoning skills, learn to work smarter, and think better? This eBook will help you improve your critical thinking skills at your own pace. As you practice, you'll benefit from seeing full explanations for every question." --

"For every kid who's tired of eating vegetables and going to bed on time, here's a book that helps them figure out how to get their own way. Examining both sides of five issues with big kid appeal (eating vegetables, bedtimes, screentime, homework, and doing chores), award-winning author Tanya Lloyd Kyi walks readers through the basics of debate skills, critical thinking and media literacy. How to pick a side, do your research, construct your argument,...

The best way to master a test is with focused, intensive practice. Inside this eBook, you will find intensive practice in pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, data analysis, statistics, coordinate geometry, and much, much more. All answer explanations are very detailed, and walk you through not only why the correct answer is right, but also why all other choices are wrong.

This is the first of two practice tests that will prepare you for the Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills section of the official MCAT. It includes 53 questions, instant scoring, and detailed answer explanations for each question.

The ten questions in this instantly scored practice set measure a candidate's ability to reason and to see relationships between words. It will help familiarize a candidate with the types of questions found in the Verbal Analogies subtest of the AFOQT.