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"Engaging, thought-provoking, and surprisingly...fun!" - Dr. Fred Jones, professor, Supreme Court attorney, author and speaker Recent surveys of over 1,000 recruiters rank creative and strategic thinking at the top of their lists for both what they're looking for in candidates, and what they're having a hard time finding. This book, in a remarkably accessible, practical and entertaining way, equips readers to meet these needs, as well as to: • Think more clearly • Innovate more creatively • Manage life’s decisions with more confidence • Simplify complex and convoluted arguments • Express convictions more powerfully Targeting high school seniors and college freshmen, but useful to all adult readers, the authors examine surprising and costly mental errors made by respected business leaders, entertainment moguls, musicians, scientists, civic leaders, generals and academics. Then, they draw practical applications to help readers avoid such mistakes and think more creatively in each field. Twenty-five chapters address innovation, outside-the-box thinking, creativity, questioning expert opinion, developing idea-driven cultures in businesses, research, logic, worldviews, crowd sourcing, paradigms, harnessing the power of teams, deductive and inductive thinking, etc. Chapter Titles Why do brilliant people believe nonsense? Chapter 1 - They're Overconfident Chapter 2 - They're Under Confident Chapter 3 - They're Married to Brands Chapter 4 - They're Blinded by Prejudices, Preconceptions and Biases Chapter 5 - They Believe What They Want to Believe Chapter 6 - They're Trapped by Traditions Chapter 7 - They Fail to Identify Hidden Assumptions Chapter 8 - They Underestimate the Power of the Paradigm Chapter 9 - They Fail to Account for Worldviews Chapter 10 - They Contradict, Leave Out Valid Options, and Knock Down Straw Men Chapter 11 - They Fall for Other Common Fallacies Chapter 12 - They Either Fail to Recognize Fallacies, or Misapply The Ones They Know Chapter 13 - They Draw Conclusions from Inadequate Evidence Chapter 14 - They're Snowed by Success Bias Chapter 15 - They "Discover" Meaningless Patterns Chapter 16 - They Fail to Closely Examine Statistics Chapter 17 - They Make Common Statistical Blunders Chapter 18 - They Fail to Learn from History Chapter 19 - They Learn the Wrong Lessons from History Chapter 20 - They Miss Subtle Shifts in Word Meanings Chapter 21 - They Misinterpret Phrases and Sentences Chapter 22 - They Use Faulty Parallels and Analogies Chapter 23 - They Fail to Identify and Interpret Fiction and Figurative Language Chapter 24 - They're Overwhelmed by Their Emotions and Passions Chapter 25 - They Fail to Reason with Emotional Intelligence and Common Sense "Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense should be must reading, not just for every college freshman, but for anyone who wants to think clearly and rationally." - Doug Erlandson, Ph.D., author, assistant professor of philosophy, University of Nebraska (retired).
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Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense: A Practical Text For Critical and Creative Thinking, by J. Miller, Cherie Miller About the Author J. Steve Miller, award-winning author and president of Legacy Educational Resources, teaches at Kennesaw State University. He has taught audiences from Atlanta to Moscow and is known for drawing practical wisdom from serious research and communicating it in accessible, unforgettable ways. His award-winning books have been translated into multiple languages. He offers seminars on "Critical, Creative and Innovative Thinking" (for students and businesses) as well as "Maximizing Critical/Creative Thinking in the Classroom" for teachers. Cherie K. Miller earned a BS in Communication with an emphasis in Media Studies, followed by a Master of Arts in Professional Writing, both from Kennesaw State University. As her thesis, she wrote a memoir entitled "One in a Million: Living Courageously with a Traumatic Brain Injury." During her time at KSU, she won several awards,. including Best College News Editor, Best Research Thesis and College of Humanities and Social Sciences' Staff Member of the Year. Since graduating, Cherie has published three books and numerous articles. Her research interests include animal studies, disability studies and the art of writing.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. An indispensable guide to good thinking By Randal Rauser There may be no skill more basic to human flourishing than the ability to reason well. It’s a skill that encompasses knowledge, wisdom, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence. And it seems to be in perilously short supply in our world that is so often dominated by sharp binary oppositions, brash personalities, quick conclusions, and “debate” that rarely moves deeper than bumper sticker sloganeering.So what does it mean to reason well? In our day many people seek guidance from the so-called “skeptic” movement as found in books like Michael Shermer’s Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Henry Holt, 1997, 2002). While Shermer does offer a lot of good advice on critically evaluating fringe positions ranging from alien abductions to Holocaust denial, he never turns the skeptical eye onto his own beliefs. Indeed, he adopts the crude binary opposition of the uncritical fundamentalist as he distinguishes “spiritualists, religionists, New Agers, and psychics” from “materialists, atheists, scientists, and skeptics” and opines confidently that only the latter truly care about truth (7). Sadly, like so many so-called “skeptics”, Shermer never pauses to apply his skills of critical thinking to his own crude binary oppositions and the core secular dogmatisms that they protect.A real guide to good reasoningSteve Miller and Cherie Miller’s new book Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense transcends such crude binary oppositions as it offers a guide to critical thinking that has a self-awareness and situatedness that is simply absent in the lesser works of so-called skeptics like Shermer. This is a holistic manual that offers a genuine guide for critical thinking in our day. The Millers are even-handed when it comes to religion. Indeed, they devote chapters to illumining the bad reasoning of atheists like Richard Dawkins (chapter 10 on weak and invalid arguments) and Bertrand Russell (chapter 25 on emotional intelligence).But the Millers strive to be fair in their treatment of topics. For example, on page 71 they illustrate how preference can affect reasoning. To make their point they note that William Lane Craig hoped that God does exist while Thomas Nagel hoped that he doesn’t. The lesson is that Christian reasoning (like that of Craig) is as open to influence by desire as that of the atheist. No group is exempt from critical analysis Throughout the book the Millers make an effort to be fair to all sides so as to ensure that no set of beliefs is being protected from critical introspection. For example, they critique Christians who are committed to traditional hymnody (77, 81).The same objectivity is evident when they touch on politics and social issues. For example, while they provide examples that critique progressive political positions, they also provide examples that impugn conservatives as with these two examples of the fallacy of false dilemma:Example: “You either support Israelis in Palestine or you’re an anti-Semite.”Example: “Are you for George Bush or are you for the terrorists?” (161)The result is that a person could read "Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense" and not know what the Millers’ own religious or political views are. And this is as it should be, because it indicates that no views have been exempted from critical introspection.Eight Reasons People Believe NonsenseCherie and Steve Miller provide eight answers to explain why people believe “nonsense”: Section 1: They’re attitudes make them vulnerable; Section 2: They’re comfortable with existing beliefs; Section 3: They fail to recognize weak and invalid arguments; Section 4: They jump to conclusions; Section 5: They misunderstand statistics; Section 6: They botch history; Section 7: They misinterpret literature; Section 8: They fail to harness their passions.These eight sections are divided into 25 chapters and together they cover a dizzying range of topics. Steve Miller (the voice in the book) punctuates the analysis with an endless number of illustrations, many of them richly drawn from biographies of well known people like Warren Buffet, Bertrand Russell, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin. And Led Zeppelin, Martin Luther, Ozzy Osbourne, and The Beatles. And countless others besides. Miller is extremely well read and is uniquely equipped to garner wisdom from a wide number of disparate sources in business, theology, history, politics, culture, and psychology, all to the end of equipping the reader to reason well.Perhaps I can provide one example of the incisive analysis in the book. To that end, consider how the Millers follow up a relatively conventional chapter on logical fallacies (chapter 11) with chapter 12 that addresses what Steve Miller calls “The Fallacy Fallacy”. The concern of this chapter is to warn against the temptation of the “internet troll” who has a superficial grasp of fallacies that is only sufficient to label others with a smarmy self-satisfaction. This is how he puts it:“I often read comments on blog posts or articles or Facebook discussions which accuse the writer of committing a specific logical fallacy and thus declaring the argument thoroughly debunked, typically with an air of arrogant finality. While the debunker may feel quite smug, intelligent participants consider him quite sophomoric. In reality, he’s typically failed to even remotely understand the argument, much less apply the fallacy in a way that’s relevant to the discussion.“Surely this fallacy deserves a proper name and should be listed with other fallacies. Thus I’ll define ‘The Fallacy Fallacy’ as ‘Improperly connecting a fallacy with an argument, so that the argument is errantly presumed to be debunked.'” (172)This is a brilliantly perceptive observation, one which is made not from the ivory tower but rather from the muddy trenches of real world exchanges in the blogosphere. And I heartily concur with Miller that the “Fallacy Fallacy” is distressingly common. (In my experience, the argumentum ad populum and ad hominem are the fallacies most frequently invoked under fallacious pretenses.)So what of it?"Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense" is full of trenchant analysis like this. For example, chapter 20 begins by recounting the biography of a ne’er do well named “Bartle Niesient” who seems to be lazy and obtuse. Then we learn that this person is in fact Albert Einstein. It turns out that the lazy and obtuse ne’er do well is, in fact, one of history’s great geniuses. What’s the lesson here? Miller observes that we tend to define “smart” and “genius” across a spectrum of abilities and aptitudes. But Einstein was woefully limited in certain areas, as are most geniuses. The lesson is that we ought to define “smart” and “genius” with respect to particular areas rather than generally. (In other words, if Einstein doesn’t quality as a genius relative to the traditional definition, then so much the worse for the traditional definition.) And this in turn should revolutionize the way we think about education itself. (See the discussion in chapter 20.) This is a fascinating chapter brimming with wisdom and insight.The same might be said of the book generally. "Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense" is a tour-de-force comprised of eight sections, twenty-five chapters, eight (count ’em, eight) appendices, and 400+pages, all directed to the end of inculcating in the reader the ability to reason well. In this compulsively readable work Steve Miller and Cherie Miller offer an invaluable tour of critical thinking and life wisdom. Countless fascinating anecdotes keep the reader turning the pages, and every story has a lesson to teach, an insight to bestow. "Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense" is an ideal handbook for good reasoning and wise living in the twenty-first century.[...]
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Should Be Taught in Every College By Douglas Winslow Cooper WHY BRILLIANT PEOPLE BELIEVE NONSENSE is the title of an exceptionally fine book on critical and creative thinking written by J. Steven Miller, who teaches a course on this topic at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and by his wife, Cherie Miller.Having taught science at Harvard, I'm well aware of how even the brightest students can draw wrong conclusions. This book would be a great foundation for anyone beginning college, or simply beginning adult life.Why did no one want to represent the Beatles when they first came to America? Why was the hit TV-series "Lost" initially denigrated by people in the industry? Does exposure to cold temperatures increase your likelihood of catching a cold? Miller starts with a few such examples to get us wondering, then examines the reasons why so many experts have gotten so much so wrong, a theme taken up in David Freedman’s book of a few years ago, 'Wrong."Why do they go astray? Let the Millers’ chapters show the ways:• They’re Over-confident:“Humble learners trump the educated by arrogant,” which is why WalMart’s Sam Walton and and G.E.’s Jack Welch never stopped learning and why Google avoids candidates with large egos.• They’re Under-confident:“Passionate research trumps expert opinion.” Did deeper. Wikipedia harnesses the power of crowds and diversity, but lacks the authority of experts; use, with caution.• They’re Married to Brands:Is a Lexus worth that much more than a Toyota? Are you measuring reliability or comfort or how much it impresses others? Why New Coke failed and Classic Coke prevailed, despite not tasting as good in taste tests.• They’re Blinded by Prejudices, Preconceptions and Biases:“All writing slants the way the writer believes, and no man is born perpendicular,” Steve Miller quotes author-editor E.B. White. We often see things as we are, rather than as they are. Musician Elton John, “the guy with big glasses,” struggled mightily to get his music heard, and once it finally was, he rapidly became a mega-star.Miller asks his readers to examine our own prejudices, and he lists about a dozen widely held beliefs about people that are stereotypes of little or no validity, such as “preppies are snobs.“ He cites a study done of professors’ pre-conceived notions about 1200 students, many of them predicting outcomes that were quite wrong.The antidote: diversify your experiences, your colleagues, your sources of information, and those with whom you do business.• They Believe What They Want to Believe“If you can only read one newspaper, read the opposition’s,” anonymous advice rarely taken, quoted by the Millers.Steve Jobs’s brilliance and passion distorted reality for those Apple employees around him, helping them achieve what otherwise might not have been possible, but it may have killed him, as his refusal to take conventional treatments for his pancreatic cancer led to a delay that probably cost him his life prematurely.The “power of positive thinking” can help you overcome obstacles, but can be taken too far. If you are seven feet tall, pro basketball could be a good career choice, at six feet, a dubious one, and at five feet, forget it, despite all the positive thinking you can muster.We tend to tune out views opposed to our own, as they make us uncomfortable. When we hear them, we often supply our own rebuttal, while accepting uncritically what our allies say. To Socrates’ “Know thyself,” Steve Miller adds, “Doubt thyself.”•They’re Trapped in Traditions“We’ve always done it that way” may be words of wisdom or words of doom, depending on changes in your environment, goals, competition. Check your premises. Check your data. The Millers give extended an example of Starbucks and its slow adoption of the option of low-fat milk for the lattes. If we didn’t pay attention to past performance, we couldn’t build bridges, but if we become entranced by the past, the future will pass us by.•They Fail to Identify Hidden AssumptionsThe Millers note that in 1998 Yahoo dominated Internet search, with 75% of the searches. You know the rest: focusing on improved search techniques, Google is now the fifth largest company in the world. Yahoo…not so much. What should you do? Prize honest, candor, criticism. Think, rather than just remember. Reward innovation. Question authority and “authorities.”•They Underestimate the Power of the Paradigm Steve Miller recalls that the great physicist Albert Einstein refused to believe in quantum mechanics, well established in theory and experiment, because it went against his views of determinism. Einstein likewise would not accept the idea of an expanding universe, despite its being predictable from his basic equations. Despite the mounting evidence in its favor, the Big Bang theory of a dynamic universe was long rejected by many scientists. In his "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions," philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn convincingly demonstrated how hard it is for scientists to give up their paradigms, their ways of viewing the world. If hard for scientists, seeking what is true, how much harder for the laity, less committed to that search? Miller paraphrases physicist Max Planck’s dictum: science progresses one funeral at a time. Will this be the story of Global Warming? The Millers do not take sides.•They Fail to Account for Worldviews Marxism captivated many intellectuals and activists in the twentieth century, with its “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” pursued ruthlessly, because “the ends justify the means,” including theft, lying, and murder. Soviet Russia, Maoist China, the killing fields of Cambodia were the results of the worldview put into practice. For political purity, their scientists had to deny the Big Bang and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and their historians had to worship Progress. Examples of worldviews are listed.•They Contradict, Leave Out Valid Options, Knock Down Straw Men If you accept logic, an argument cannot be both true and false. Although some modern philosophers have tried to fashion arguments to maintain that there is no objective truth, such claims are themselves self-contradictory, as we need not, cannot accept them as truth if there is no truth. Leaving out valid options from our arguments produces erroneous conclusions. What’s a “straw man” argument? One that is easily refuted, often because it is a radical simplification or falsification of your opponent’s view. The Millers recommend: take time to consider the arguments; don’t be impressed with your opponent’s credentials; don’t automatically accept what you like and reject what you dislike; try to think of counter-examples to premises being offered; try to reduce the argument to standard form, such as a syllogism; get the opinions of others, too.•They Fall for Common Fallacies A diligent search led Steve Miller to a list of 27 common fallacies. He provides appendices that analyze these in depth, beyond brief explanations in the body of his book. As an exercise for the reader, the 27 fallacies are listed to be matched with statements in random order that reflect the fallacies.•They Either Fail to Recognize Fallacies, or They Misapply Ones They Know•They Jump to Conclusions Malcolm Gladwell, in his Outliers, extolled a “10,000-hour” rule, seeming to suggest that almost anyone can become expert at almost anything by putting in 10,000 hours of practice. He cited a few plausible examples, and a couple of studies, but more generally we find that talent is important and that those lacking talent probably get discouraged well before practicing for 10,000 hours. Talent and practice are intertwined.•Success Bias Have you heard the term “success bias”? It refers to evidence that comes from looking at the outstanding examples: Warren Buffett in finance, Mary Kay Ash in marketing, Tom Brady in football, as examples. We are led to believe that if we do what they did, we will be comparably successful. When we try and fail, we are puzzled. Evidence based on extremes, especially favorable extremes is of little real value: it shows it was done, if true, but not that it can be done by you. Sure, someone wins the lottery, but what were the odds? What fraction of the practitioners of "The Secret" got their visions fulfilled? Reading lots of biographies will show that sometimes contradictory approaches are equally successful.•Seeing Patterns Mistakenly Have you seen a cloud or an ink blot that looked like something very different? You have “found” a pattern where none really exists, a common problem smart people tend to do. Much of scientific procedure is designed to prevent this, and yet even scientists draw incorrect conclusions from apparent patterns in data later shown to be spurious. Buying when the stock market seems to be going up and selling when it seems to be going down appears to make sense, but every buyer needs a seller, one who sees just the opposite tendencies, “already too high” or “already too low.” The Millers give recent examples of boom and bust: the housing bubble, the dot com bubble. We tend to see a pattern when two similar things happen in a row; if we are investing and this makes us money, we get an endorphin high and credit the “trend”; in retrospect, we tend to remember or wins and forget our losses. “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” Investors are always warned this way. Some of what once occurred was random, some dependent on the conditions at the time. Underlying causes are hard to decipher. Of course, we cannot ignore the past entirely, either.•Be Skeptical of Scare Stories Do we need to increase the number of students pursuing STEM (science, technical, engineering, math) degrees? The Millers analyze the actual data, rather than just the scary percentage figures, and conclude the crisis does not exist. Are most 15-year-olds having sexual intercourse? The author analyzed the data and found than 80% of 15-year-old girls had not had sex voluntarily, despite the general belief that in that age group “everybody is doing it.” Definitions matter. One respondent to a survey asking about her being “sexually active” said that she wasn’t, “I just kind of lie there.”•Political Lies “Politicians torture data until it confesses what they want it to say,” one reason why some people think we are in a recession and others think the economy is booming. A low “unemployment rate” seems good, until you learn that it does not include those who have given up looking for a job. A low “labor participation rate” is much more significant and much more of a legitimate concern. The Millers’ example is a ranking of the U.S. versus other countries in performance of or students on a standardized test. If all the countries in the world are used, we look pretty good. If only the highly developed countries are used, we look average. If the top 14 are listed, we come last. Ah, a crisis needing a political remedy!•What about Learning from History? The Millers quote Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Steve Miller loves his history books. Of course, a skeptic might reply that history is the story written by the winners….a kind of success bias. Create your own history by doing a bit of what it is you might like to make into your career. Why did you like or dislike it? Smarts are good, but experience is a unique teacher. Ask a successful person how it was done. Volunteer for something. Get work someone will actually pay you to do. History depends on evidence and interpretation. I was fascinated by the Millers’ dissection of this issue: what caused our recent Great Recession? Depends on whether you are asking Democrats or Republicans. A dozen or so factors are offered up. Life offers multitudinous facts and stories from which to cherry-pick our preferred explanation. Historians have fads, like anybody else.•Definitions Can Be Slippery The Millers quote Socrates, “The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.” Defining seems so dry! Yet it is essential. We think we know what we mean by “genius,” but Steve Miller shows that most of our criteria would have labeled Albert Einstein as definitely non-genius.Use Analogies and Parallels Properly Often Americans’ performances are compared with those of people in foreign countries, to our disadvantage. But selection of topics and selection of populations being compared often make these comparisons spurious. If we don’t seem to do as well as Finland (see parentheses next) in educating our students, why is that? Which differing elements are crucial?•Handle Figurative Pieces Carefully Fiction, that is novels and short stories, can make powerful impressions. My horror at the depravity of the Nazi concentration camps was first generated by Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, The Spark of Life, and President Abraham Lincoln once called Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the moving novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the little woman who started the Civil War. We have to be careful that we are not led astray by an author’s skill in arousing strong emotions, until we know more about the topic at hand. Which parts of the Bible to take literally and which to treat as parables produces much of the disagreement among its readers. And, even the author does not intend or claim there to be a parallel, there still may be. For fun, Miller analyzes the song “American Pie,” showing how information and imagination can develop plausible, but not definitive, explanations for puzzling lyrics. Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud had sexual interpretations for many common objects, to which humorist Ogden Nash quipped: Everything reminds me of sex Because almost everything is somewhat concave or convex.•Don’t Let Emotion Overwhelm Reason and Common Sense Miller uses the catastrophic collapse of Enron, run by what one author called “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” to illustrate how emotions like over-confidence and greed can make even brilliant people blunder badly and end up in jail, like Enron’s Jeff Skilling. To keep from making such big mistakes, keep humble, recognize your emotions, passions, vulnerabilities, limited perspective, temptations, and fears. Stay skeptical!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Excellent and thought-provoking introduction to critical thinking By Doug Erlandson “Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense: A Practical Text for Critical and Creative Thinking” is not your typical logic-style text in critical thinking. If you’re expecting an extended discussion of the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning, a detailed explication of formal and informal fallacies, and the nature of explanation, probability, and the like, this is not it. Seeing how many logic books are already on the market, the fact that it isn't your typical logic text is not a great loss.Instead, J. Steve Miller and his wife, Cherie Miller, tackle a far-less researched issue, one that is summarized in the title of the book: Why brilliant people believe nonsense. Over a span of 25 chapters and 400 plus pages, the Millers show how people’s attitudes, prejudices and biases, wishful thinking, traditions, paradigms, worldviews, failure to recognize fallacies, jumping to conclusions without adequate evidence, misreading statistics, drawing the wrong conclusions from history, their emotions, and much more, lead them astray. By the time one finishes the book one is bound to have a far better understanding of why the leading intellects of every age have so often gotten it wrong. More importantly, the careful reader of the book will be far better equipped to guard against such blunders in his or her own thinking.Unlike many academic texts, “Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense” does not dwell in the realm of abstract theory or contrived examples. Instead, at every step the Millers use real-life examples from history and daily life to illustrate their points. We learn, for instance, why Lenin and the Soviet scientists were so resistant to the Big Bang Theory, how the presuppositions of the British forces contributed to their losing the Revolutionary War, why “the smartest guys in the room” bankrupted Enron, and how the assumptions of Starbucks’ founders almost kept them from becoming an internationally-known brand.“Why Brilliant People Believe Nonsense” should be must reading not just for every college freshman but for anyone who wants to think clearly and rationally. As someone who taught college-level logic and critical thinking classes for more than two decades, I found the book fascinating from cover to cover and a real aid to my own understanding.
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