Think Like a Scientist

A Toolkit for Tackling Life's Overwhelming Questions and Making Great Decisions

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Change your way of thinking to help you better navigate real lifeHave you ever looked at your life and said, “How do I fix this mess?” We’ve all seen books that claim they have the answers and that those answers are “backed by science.” But what does that even mean? Facing limited time and high stakes, how do we know which advice to believe? In Think Like a Scientist, research methodologist Jennifer Steele harnesses lessons from teaching scientific methods to skeptics and applies them to everyday life. With vivid personal stories, she shows how to unpack research evidence in order to handle conflicting medical advice, learn hard skills, manage disease risk, decide on fulfilling colleges and careers, find healthy love, save for the future, and navigate messy emotions. Scientific thinking, Steele argues, is uncommon in everyday life not because it’s rigid or narrow but because most of us simply weren’t taught how to use it. Still, science offers a powerful toolkit for managing uncertainty and making peace with past mistakes. Blending scientific principles with practical wisdom, Think Like a Scientist provides strategies each of us can use to gain an edge in figuring out our lives.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-01-07
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt370 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRowman & Littlefield
Antal sidor272
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798216375920

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Jennifer Steele is a professor at the Linda A. and H. Kent Baker School of Education at American University. She has spent a decade teaching science-based decision making to policymakers. The author of dozens of scholarly articles and monographs, she has worked as a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as a François Chevalier Fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Her writing has appeared in Salon, Fast Company, The Washington Post, The Hill, The Conversation, and Education Week, and she has been a television commentator for NBC, CBS, CGTN, and other outlets. She resides with her family outside Washington, DC.

List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgmentsNote on SourcesAbout the AuthorChapter 1: The Dodo and the Secret of Uncommon SenseChapter 2: Should You Fill a Prescription for Magical Thinking?Chapter 3: How to Learn Hard ThingsChapter 4: Do Vaccines Turn Us into Sheep?Chapter 5: Is College for Dupes?Chapter 6: How to Find Your Calling While BrokeChapter 7: Should I Stay or Should I Go?Chapter 8: Do You Believe in Life After Work?Chapter 9: How to Fix Your LifeChapter 10: Claiming Our Human Inheritance