TY - BOOK AU - Perlmutter,Saul AU - Campbell,John L. AU - MacCoun,Robert J. TI - Third millennium thinking: creating sense in a world of nonsense SN - 9780316438100 AV - BF441 P451m 2024 U1 - 153.4/2 23/eng/20240917 PY - 2024/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown Spark KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Decision making KW - Social psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - decision making KW - aat KW - social psychology KW - thinking KW - Prise de décision KW - Psychologie sociale KW - Pensée KW - Psychologie cognitive N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index; Introduction -- Part I: Getting a grip on reality. Decisions, decisions, decisions ; Instruments and reality ; Making things happen -- Part II: Understanding and uncertainty. A radical shift to probablistic thinking ; Overconfidence and humility ; Finding signal in noise ; Seeing things that aren't there ; Pick your poison: Two kinds of error ; Statistical and systematic uncertainty -- Part III: The radical can-do stance. Scientific optimism ; Orders of understanding and Fermi problems -- Part IV: Minding the gaps. Why it's hard to learn from experience ; Science gone wrong ; Confirmation bias and blind analysis -- Part V: Joining forces. The wisdom and madness of crowds ; Weaving facts and values ; The deliberation challege ; Rebooting trust for a new millennium N2 - A Nobel prize-winning physicist, a social psychologist and a philosopher on how science can help us navigate information overload, thrive amidst uncertainty and heal our fractured society ER -