01870cam a22003017i 4500 91539 91539 127153 BJBSDDR 20230410133009.0 151005s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng d 9780316256544 (hc) 0316256544 BJBSDDR eng BD 175 P876h 2016 306.4 Poundstone, William, 1331 1955- Head in the cloud : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / William Poundstone. 1st edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. x, 340 p. : ill. ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index. 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. 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. Knowledge, Theory of. Big data. Information behavior. lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 BD 175 P876h 2016 00000120328 2018-11-17 00:00:00 1 2018-11-17 BK