[PDF.75lb] The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

[PDF.gw96] The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

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 | #281979 in Books |  Current Trade |  2013-08-27 |  2013-08-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.40 x.70 x5.50l,.50 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Enjoyable|By ubpdqn|I enjoyed this book and I believe it provides an important insight. It fits well with Thinking, fast and slow (Kahneman). The author starts with a deliberately fuzzy/loose pragmatic definition of "fact" and proceeds to explore the quantitative aspects of evolution (or temporal characteristics) of knowledge and information. He uses mathematical and statist

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Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that the brontosaurus was a real dinosaur. In short, what we know about the world is constantly changing.
 
Samuel Arbesman shows us how knowledge in most fields evolves systematically and predictably, and how this evolution unfolds in a fascinating way that can...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date   |  Samuel Arbesman.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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