The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives

There are many short stories and behind the scenes accounts to keep you engaged. It offers some truly eye opening accounts of absurdly stupid policies, political agendas, and flagrant sexist opinions that were held in the professions, beyond what anyone could imagine today. Along with countless tidbits of information that keep you on your toes and make you really think through some basic math and word problems. Bring your reading comprehension A-game, and you will do fine. This might be a top 10 book of all time. I love it!

After many Philosophy courses, Such as Logic, I think that thisBook would be of benefit to many people.....and goodness knows that many could benefit from such exposure! We all need help trying to cut through the lies, fabrications and twisted reasoning handed out by Politicians and pollsters! There is not enough clear thinking in our population today

Book is not always easy or interesting to read, BUT everybody should try. How can our society cannot improve if we're all illogical? As author points out; we delegate our dumb politicians to spend $trillions$.

Marilyn's a real smarty pants, and in this book takes pleasure in exposing how our intuitive thinking about even seemingly 'simple' and 'obvious' things can sometimes be hopelessly incorrect--especially when numbers and statistics are in play. This was a fun read with many practical applications for people seeking to understand the world around them through the acquisition and analysis of numerical data (something I believe all people do, albeit to differing degrees).

It's just collection of Ask Marilyn columns organized into chapters. Wouldn't have bought it if that was clear from the product page or book cover. Yet to find a lesson in the Art of Reasoning promised by the book's cover.

The section on politicians and statistics is eye-opening, Leonard Pitts wrote some years ago in his newspaper column a piece titled "the Lost Art of Critical Thinking" and vos Savant's book brought that article to mind.

I enjoyed my book

A fascinating discussion about how our minds make false assumptions with many practical examples and puzzles.

I read many reviews about the book and I knew what to expect, more or less. It is not an essay, but a collection of problems that the author came across while writing on her column, most of which are counter-intuitive. Along with many of those posts in the column, she adds the wrong answers from many readers, especially when they ridicule her for being wrong -she wasn't, of course-. That's the book. Many interesting and (mostly) challenging problems -with their answers- with some occasional responses from people here and there, just to show how easy is it for the human mind to err. There is no argument, no hypothesis, no discussions, but many of the problems are fascinating. If what I described is exactly what you want, buy the book; if you expect something else, don't.

Ok

Good book for students and all for improve logical thinking

Es un libro excelente, te cambia la perspectiva sobre la vida actual. Me ha sido muy útil. Gracias.

They should give this book as a gift to everyone that want to learn to think properly. Ms. Savant should’ve written more books. I’m totally and happily thankful for this marvelous masterpiece.