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Think Like a Scientist

A Toolkit for Tackling Life's Overwhelming Questions and Making Great Decisions

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Think Like a Scientist

A Toolkit for Tackling Life's Overwhelming Questions and Making Great Decisions

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Change your way of thinking to help you better navigate real life

Have you ever looked at your life and said, “How do I fix this mess?” We've all seen books that claim they have the answers and that those answers are “backed by science.” But what does that even mean? Facing limited time and high stakes, how do we know which advice to believe?

In Think Like a Scientist, research methodologist Jennifer Steele harnesses lessons from teaching scientific methods to skeptics and applies them to everyday life. With vivid personal stories, she shows how to unpack research evidence in order to handle conflicting medical advice, learn hard skills, manage disease risk, decide on fulfilling colleges and careers, find healthy love, save for the future, and navigate messy emotions.

Scientific thinking, Steele argues, is uncommon in everyday life not because it's rigid or narrow but because most of us simply weren't taught how to use it. Still, science offers a powerful toolkit for managing uncertainty and making peace with past mistakes. Blending scientific principles with practical wisdom, Think Like a Scientist provides strategies each of us can use to gain an edge in figuring out our lives.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Dodo and the Secret of Uncommon Sense
Chapter 2: Should You Fill a Prescription for Magical Thinking?
Chapter 3: How to Learn Hard Things
Chapter 4: Do Vaccines Turn Us into Sheep?
Chapter 5: Is College for Dupes?
Chapter 6: How to Find Your Calling While Broke
Chapter 7: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Chapter 8: Do You Believe in Life After Work?
Chapter 9: How to Fix Your Life
Chapter 10: Claiming Our Human Inheritance

Product details

Published Jan 07 2027
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 9798216375920
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jennifer Steele

Jennifer Steele is a professor at the Linda A. and…

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