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Maclean's ... universities guidebook.
Includes Internet addresses.LSC
Subjects: Universities and colleges;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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A field guide to lies / by Levithin, Daniel J.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the bestselling author of The Organized Mind, the must-have book about how to analyze who and what to trust in the age of information overload. It's becoming harder to separate the wheat from the digital chaff. How do we distinguish misinformation, pseudo-facts, distortions and outright lies from reliable information? In A Field Guide to Lies, Daniel J. Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age and provides the means to spot and avoid them. There are many ways we can be led astray by fast-talking, loose-writing purveyors of information. Levitin groups his field guide into two categories--statistical information and faulty arguments--ultimately showing how science is the bedrock of critical thinking. It is easy to lie with stats and graphs as few people "take the time to look under the hood and see how they work." And, just because there's a number on something, doesn't mean that the number was arrived at properly. But, we can learn how to better read these numbers. Logic can help to evaluate whether or not a chain of reasoning is valid, and there are tricks to practising this, too. And "infoliteracy" teaches us that not all sources of information are equal, and that biases can distort what it is we are being asked to consider. Perhaps it is unfair that we have to evaluate everything ourselves--surely informaton sources should be fact-checking everything for us? Yes, they should, but they don't always. Faced with a world too eager to flood us with information, the best response is to be prepared. The goal of A Field Guide to Lies is to help us avoid learning a lot of things that aren't true."--
Subjects: Critical thinking.; Electronic information resources; Information literacy.; Reasoning.; Science news; Statistics; Trust.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Bad data : why we measure the wrong things and often miss the metrics that matter / by Schryvers, Peter,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Performance; Quantitative research;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Analyzing disappearing habitats : asking questions, evaluating evidence, and designing solutions / by Steele, Philip,1948-;
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Subjects: Habitat conservation; Wildlife conservation; Endangered ecosystems; Global warming;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ontario provincial testing practice (English).
A resource for children designed to familiarize them with the format of the assessment of reading and writing, developed in agreement with the Ontario curriculum.LSC
Subjects: Language arts (Elementary); Language arts (Elementary); Educational tests and measurements; Education, Elementary;
© c2008., Popular Book Company (Canada),
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Ontario provincial testing practice (English).
A resource for children designed to familiarize them with the format of the assessment of reading and writing, developed in agreement with the Ontario curriculum.LSC
Subjects: Language arts (Elementary); Language arts (Elementary); Educational tests and measurements; Education, Elementary;
© c2008., Popular Book Company (Canada),
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Factfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world--and why things are better than you think / by Rosling, Hans,author.; Rosling, Ola,1975-author.; Rönnlund, Anna Rosling,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Social perception.; Social indicators.; Quality of life; Quality of life; Critical thinking.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ontario provincial testing practice (math).
A resource for children designed to familiarize them with the format of the assessment of math, developed in agreement with the Ontario curriculum.LSC
Subjects: Mathematics; Mathematics; Educational tests and measurements; Education, Primary;
© c2014., Popular Book Company (Canada),
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The good life : lessons from the world's longest scientific study of happiness / by Waldinger, Robert J.,1951-author.; Schulz, Mark,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What makes a life fulfilling and meaningful? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. The stronger our relationships, the more likely we are to live happy, satisfying, and overall healthier lives. In fact, the Harvard Study of Adult Development reveals that the strength of our connections with others can predict the health of both our bodies and our brains as we go through life. The invaluable insights in this book emerge from the revealing personal stories of hundreds of participants in the Harvard Study as they were followed year after year for their entire adult lives, and this wisdom is bolstered by research findings from this and many other studies. Relationships in all their forms-friendships, romantic partnerships, families, coworkers, tennis partners, book club members, Bible study groups-all contribute to a happier, healthier life"--
Subjects: Harvard Study of Adult Development.; Happiness; Quality of life; Relationship quality.; Well-being;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The question / by Clarke, Austin,1934-;
A man re-evaluates his childhood and life after meeting a woman at her birthday party.
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Identity (Psychology);
© c1999., M&S,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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