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_aBD175 _b.P674 2016 |
100 | 1 | _aPoundstone, William, | |
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_aHead in the cloud : _bwhy knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / _cWilliam Poundstone |
250 | _aFirst edition | ||
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_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Company, _c2016 |
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_ax, 340 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm |
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_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier |
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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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