A Field Guide to Lies
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age is a bestselling book[1][2][3] written by Daniel J. Levitin and originally published in 2016 by Dutton (Penguin Random House). It was published in 2017 in paperback with a revised introduction under the new title Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-truth Era; a new edition was published in 2019 under the title A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking With Statistics and the Scientific Method.
Author | Daniel J. Levitin |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Critical thinking, skepticism |
Publisher | Dutton (US), Allen-Lane (Canada), Viking (U.K.) |
Publication date | September 2016 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 304 |
ISBN | 978-0-525-95522-1 |
Preceded by | The Organized Mind |
Followed by | Successful Aging (in the UK, The Changing Mind) |
It is a non-fiction book that aims to help people learn critical thinking skills, recognize logical fallacies and biases, and better test the veracity of information received through mass media. It won the Mavis Gallant Prize for non-fiction,[4] The National Business Book Award,[5] a Silver Medal from the Axiom Business Book Awards,[6] and was a Donner Prize finalist.[7] It has been published in 10 additional languages: Chinese, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Slovenian.