A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method

The simple, powerful tools of critical thinking.

Award-winning science writer Daniel Levitiin shows us how news stories, social media postings, advertising, and statistics can be manipulated to mislead. In this entertaining and engaging guide, Levitin helps us to avoid the extremes of gullibly accepting everything we read or cynically dismissing everything. This field guide makes evaluating claims a fun and easy habit of mind.