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Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / William Poundstone.

By: Poundstone, William [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, c2016Edition: First editionDescription: x, 340 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780316256544 [hardbound]Subject(s): Knowledge, Theory of | Big data | Information behaviorOnline resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description

Contents:

Introduction: Facts are obsolete -- Part One: The Dunning-Kruger effect -- 1. "I wore the juice" -- 2. A map of ignorance -- 3. Dumb history -- 4. The one-in-five rule -- 5. The low-information electorate -- Part Two: The knowledge premium -- 6. Putting a price tag on facts -- 7. Elevator-pitch science -- 8. Grammar police, grammar hippies -- 9. Nanoframe -- 10. Is shrimp kosher? -- 11. Philosophers and reality stars -- 12. Sex and absurdity -- 13. Moving the goalposts -- 14. Marshmallow test -- 15. The value of superficial learning -- Part Three: Strategies for a culturally illiterate world -- 16. When dumbing down is smart -- 17. Curating knowledge -- 18. The ice-cap riddle -- 19. The fox and the hedgehog.

Summary: "Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort." --Provided by the publisher

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.

"Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort." --Provided by the publisher