Many scientific and philosophical ideas are so powerful that they can be
applied to our lives at home, work, and school to help us think smarter
and more effectively about our behavior and the world around us.
Surprisingly, many of these ideas remain unknown to most of us. In
Mindware, the world-renowned psychologist Richard Nisbett presents
these ideas in clear and accessible detail, offering a tool kit for
better thinking and wiser decisions.
He has made a distinguished career of studying and teaching such
powerful problem-solving concepts as the law of large numbers,
statistical regression, cost-benefit analysis, sunk costs and
opportunity costs, and causation and correlation, probing how best to
teach others to use them effectively in their daily lives. In this
groundbreaking book, he shows that a course in a given field--statistics
or economics, for example--often doesn't work as well as a few minutes
of more practical instruction in analyzing everyday situations.
Mindware shows how to reframe common problems in such a way that these
powerful scientific and statistical concepts can be applied to them. The
result is an enlightening and practical guide to the most powerful tools
of reasoning ever developed--tools that can easily be used to make
better professional, business, and personal decisions.
