by William Poundstone
Poundstone fields large-scale surveys to map what Americans know (and don't) and correlates general knowledge with income, health, and political behavior. He argues that in a Google-saturated world, a stocked mental warehouse still drives better judgement, cognitive fluency, and resistance to misinformation.
In this collection, Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up references 4 other books.
It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow, Outliers and The Art of Thinking Clearly.
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Draws on Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow on System 1 associative memory and the availability heuristic to explain why background knowledge speeds fluent judgement
Engages with Gladwell's Outliers on expertise and the 10,000-hour rule when arguing that stored knowledge still matters in the information age
References Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly catalog of biases as complementary to the knowledge gaps Poundstone documents
Cites Silver's The Signal and the Noise on distinguishing signal from noise in a data-saturated environment
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