Critical Thinking

Tools for Evaluating Research

Peter Nardi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2017
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29184-3 (ISBN)

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Critical Thinking: Tools for Evaluating Research prepares students for interpreting information in a critical and thoughtful way so they can develop sophisticated levels of analyses crucial for understanding our increasingly complex and multi-mediated world. Peter M. Nardi's approach helps students improve analytical reasoning, develop insightful skepticism, and interpret and create reliable and valid research methodologies. The book emphasizes the creation of a toolbox of analytic skills enabling them to ask the right questions about the research and stories they hear or read about online, in the mass media, or in scholarly publications. Students are provided with ways to understand common errors in thinking; identify methods required to evaluate information and interpret results; understand social science concepts needed to make sense of both popular and academic claims; and communicate, apply, and integrate the methods learned in both research and daily life.

Peter M. Nardi is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Pitzer College. He is the author of Doing Survey Research: A Guide to Quantitative Methods.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Critical Thinking
1. Numeracy
2. Sampling and Generalizability
3. Probability and Coincidence
4. Visual Thinking
5. Correlation and Causation
6. Scientific Thinking
7. Fact, Opinion, and Logical Reasoning

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2018
Zusatzinfo	29 b-w line art & 8 tables, sc
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	0-520-29184-0 / 0520291840
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29184-3 / 9780520291843
Zustand	Neuware