{"id":20002,"date":"2020-02-15T04:04:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/?p=20002"},"modified":"2020-02-14T13:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:50:50","slug":"a-field-guide-to-lies-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/2020\/02\/15\/a-field-guide-to-lies-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>A Field Guide to Lies<\/em> (ebook)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/02\/9780698409798.jpg?resize=132%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19957\" \/>Puro buonsenso. Se dovessi descrivere in due parole questo libro (Daniel J. Levitin, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/36WTO2L\">A Field Guide to Lies<\/a> : Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World<\/em>, Penguin 2019 [2016], pag. 266, &euro; 9,49 (cartaceo: 12,64), ISBN 9780593182512) il mio lapidario giudizio sarebbe questo. Levitin, forse perch\u00e9 non \u00e8 un matematico o uno statistico di professione, riesce a mostrare in modo semplice come sia facilissimo dare al lettore frettoloso un&#8217;idea completamente sbagliata di cosa sta davvero succedendo&#8230; il tutto senza nemmeno darsi la pena di falsare i dati. Tutto quello che serve \u00e8 presentarli in maniera opportuna. L&#8217;autore non si fa problemi a riconoscere, soprattutto nella prima parte &#8220;Evaluating numbers&#8221;, il proprio debito verso il libro di Darrell Huff <i>Mentire con le statistiche<\/i>, meritoria opera ancora valida nonostante i suoi decenni e anche <a href=\"https:\/\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/2008\/03\/21\/mentire_con_le\/\">disponibile in italiano<\/a>: di nuovo, non \u00e8 un caso che nemmeno Huff fosse matematico. Qui naturalmente gli esempi sono pi\u00f9 moderni, e per esempio quello del discorso di Rumsfeld (con le &#8220;unknown unknows&#8221;) \u00e8 davvero da manuale; ma soprattutto le sezioni &#8220;Evaluating the words&#8221; e &#8220;Evaluating the world&#8221; vi aiuteranno a guardare alle notizie con occhi nuovi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come accorgersi degli errori metodologici, voluti e 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