This rather ambitious title sets out high expectations for the book. You do not need to be a science teacher or a scientist to recognize the importance of good scientific thinking. I started reading this book when it seemed that global warming was the most significant crisis of the day requiring scientific thinking skills. The COVID-19 global pandemic quickly leapt onto the stage as a critical concern before I could finish. “With almost seven and a half billion people in the world, there is no room for delusion anymore. Having an ape brain couldn’t happen at a worse time.” How prophetic.
Stanley A. Rice has identified several ways our brains deceive us into seeing what we want to see and thinking what we want to think. The information that stays with us is the information that confirms what we already believe. These inherent biases and simplified methods of interpreting information...
University of California Press