May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It...

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Alex Edmans

May Contain Lies

How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

Alex Edmans

$42.99

Hardback

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English

Penguin
30 July 2024

Cultural studies; Media studies; Social research & statistics; Psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology; Popular psychology

How to understand our human biases to separate fact from fiction, identify misinformation when we see it and make smarter decisions.

A ground-breaking book that reveals why our human biases affect the way we receive and interpret information

Our lives are minefields of misinformation. Statistics, stories and studies lie to us on a daily basis. Not only this but, as Professor Alex Edmans reveals, our brains lie to us too. He argues that we need to acknowledge and understand the role that our own human biases play in interpreting and digesting the information that we consume. It's only when we do, that we can actively resist being manipulated, and make informed choices that improve our lives.

By: Alex Edmans
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 443g
ISBN: 9780241630167
ISBN 10: 0241630169
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 30 July 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. His TED talk 'What to Trust in a Post-Truth World' has been viewed 2 million times. He has also spoken at Davos and Google. In 2013, he was awarded tenure at The Wharton School and in 2021, was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets and Quants. Edmans writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. His first book Grow the Pie (Cambridge University Press) was a Financial Times Book of the Year.

Reviews for May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all - be that in finance, politics, media, business or anywhere else. Edmans offers clear ideas about how to counter this, not just in our own lives but also across society as a whole. Timely and very provocative! -- Gillian Tett * Columnist and Editorial Board, the Financial Times and Provost, Kings College, Cambridge * A masterpiece! A must-read book that is both a delight to consume and sure to improve the quality of your thinking. We all want to know how to avoid biased decisions and draw more accurate conclusions. Edmans offers a riveting read that will help you dodge common mistakes and more successfully analyze evidence -- Katy Milkman * Author of How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be * Mass disinformation and poor understanding of basic statistics are the hallmarks of our 'information age'. Alex Edman's book is the much-needed antidote -- Vaclav Smil * Bestselling author of How the World Really Works * A hard-hitting book with some great stories -- Andrew Gelman * Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University *