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050 1 4 _aBD175
_b.P674 2016
100 1 _aPoundstone, William,
245 1 0 _aHead in the cloud :
_bwhy knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up /
_cWilliam Poundstone
250 _aFirst edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bLittle, Brown and Company,
_c2016
300 _ax, 340 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index
505 0 _aIntroduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog
520 _aLooks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort
650 0 _aKnowledge, Theory of
650 0 _aBig data
650 0 _aInformation behavior
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