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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Poundstone, William, author.     Subjects     Knowledge, Theory of.     Big data.     Information behavior.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Poundstone, William, author.       by title:      Head in the cloud [e...         MARC Display

Head in the cloud [electronic resource] : why knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / William Poundstone. by Poundstone, William, author. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. Subjects Knowledge, Theory of.   Big data.   Information behavior. Electronic Resource http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=50&titleID=2469268 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=08490b8c-34d5-419b-8e5b-a739f25bc7ea&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0017-1/{08490B8C-34D5-419B-8E5B-A739F25BC7EA}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780316269513 (electronic bk.) 0316269514 (electronic bk.) 9780316256544 0316256544 Description:  1 online resource (x, 340 pages) : illustrations. Edition:  First edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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