Critical thinking. Analyze, doubt, form your opinion

Critical thinking is one of the key competencies of a person of the future. The ability to question and analyze any information is a great way to protect yourself from deception and manipulation. Tom Chatfield calls on to analyze everything and everywhere: at work, in study and everyday life, and gives practical recommendations on how to do it. The author lists the signs by which you can recognize a lie and distinguish real arguments from false ones. Introduces deduction, induction and abduction, helps to develop behavioral and mental strategies, talks about the enormous possibilities of language and rhetoric. The book is written with an excellent sense of humor, it has many striking examples and descriptions of numerous phenomena, paradoxes and traps. It will be useful to everyone who does not want to be fooled by pseudological, statistics or convincingly sounding beautiful words