Mindware

tools for smart thinking

320 pages

English language

Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-11267-7
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OCLC Number:
889164994

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4 stars (1 review)

A psychology expert offers a tool kit for thinking more clearly and making better decisions, explaining how to reframe problems using simplified concepts from science and statistics, including the law of large numbers, statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, and causation and correlation.

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Review of 'Mindware' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

No talking cats or talking rats.

In fact, no story at all.

It's non-fiction! Essays to help us think better and make better decisions. Stuff about cognitive biases and understanding statistics.

No need to follow math.

I mostly read it because I felt like sometimes I should try to improve myself a bit. Maybe I did. But one of the critical lessons is that we all have cognitive biases and think that they only affect other people.

Subjects

  • Thought and thinking
  • Reasoning