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008			160707s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng d
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035			_a(OCoLC)953173374 _z(OCoLC)928613983
092			_a306.4209 _bP876
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aPoundstone, William, _eauthor. _932374
245	1	0	_aHead in the cloud : _bwhy knowing things still matters when facts are so easy to look up / _cWilliam Poundstone.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bLittle, Brown and Company, _c2016.
300			_ax, 340 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 299-323) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aLooks 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.
650		0	_aKnowledge, Theory of. _921336
650		0	_aBig data. _9246736
650		0	_aInformation behavior. _9202652
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