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\nTowards the end of this past spring semester, I walked into my office to find the dreaded red \u201cyou have voice mail\u201d light blazing on my phone.\u00a0 As I listened to the message, I was happy to hear the voice of President Doti, who is known to use the medium to broadcast his musings to the entire campus.\u00a0 This time, he was sharing a summer reading list \u2013 suggestions for us to all consume as things wind down over the summer.<\/p>\n

\"Dean's<\/a>
\nNot to be too derivative, I thought I might offer my own spin on this.\u00a0 I seem to recall that the president was fond of a nice mix of biographical, historical, and fiction pieces.\u00a0 I am much more drab, and tend to lean towards non-fiction almost exclusively these days.\u00a0 I am so boring that the books I thought of sharing have essentially the same cover color schemes \u2013 eye-catching, no?<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, I do think that the readers of a science blog might be a good audience for these four volumes; each of them is a relatively easy read (at least when compared with an
\nUmberto Eco<\/a>
\nnovel), so don\u2019t be put off by the subject matter.<\/p>\n

Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)<\/strong><\/p>\n

First up is
\nMistakes Were Made (but not by me)<\/a>
\nby Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.\u00a0 Here, the authors take us through the world of
\ncognitive dissonance<\/a>
\n.\u00a0 They recount an often-unbelievable set of stories describing the lengths people will go to in rationalizing their beliefs with contrary sets of data, evidence, and experiences.\u00a0 This is a great read for anyone involved in science, as it reminds us to be self-critical, cautious, and unbiased as we move from observations to explanations and conclusions.\u00a0 Additionally, it delves into the psychology of why it is so painful to arrive at a conclusion that differs from a strongly held belief, and why one might go to extraordinary lengths to avoid or alleviate that psychological pain.<\/p>\n

10 \u00bd Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second pick is a much shorter and lighter read, and the first of two picks from
\nCharles Wheelan<\/a>
\n.\u00a0 I\u2019m a big fan of Wheelan\u2019s writing, so I couldn\u2019t resist plugging a couple of his works.\u00a0 In
\n10 \u00bd Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said<\/a>
\n, Wheelan retells and recounts a (not) commencement speech he gave to graduating seniors at Dartmouth in 2011.\u00a0 The brilliance of this book comes from Wheelan\u2019s honesty; he provides advice to the soon-to-graduate that runs wonderfully contrary to the intense environment of academic overachievement in which we currently live.\u00a0 Just a quick glance down the table of contents immediately tells you what he is going for:<\/p>\n

Number 1: Your time in fraternity basements was well spent.<\/em><\/p>\n

Number 3: Don\u2019t make the world worse.<\/em><\/p>\n

Number 7 \u00bd: Your parents don\u2019t want what is best for you.<\/em><\/p>\n

Number 10 \u00bd: Don\u2019t try to be great.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You get the picture \u2013 you need to read the book to find out what he
\nreally <\/em>
\nmeans by all of this.<\/p>\n

Naked Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n

My other Wheelan suggestion is a bit denser, but only slightly so.
\nNaked Statistics<\/a>
\nis not a voyeuristic look into the seedy underbelly of academic math departments, but rather a primer on the actual meaning of various bits of arcane statistical jargon.\u00a0 He then moves from the terminology and concepts to a wonderful series of examples where stats can help us understand extraordinarily important things like \u201cChapter 4: How does Netflix know what movies I like?\u201d or \u201cChapter 6: How overconfident math geeks nearly destroyed the global financial system.\u201d\u00a0 Overall, the reader comes away with a better appreciation of how numbers can be manipulated for good, evil, and sometimes entertaining purposes.<\/p>\n

Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, we come to the most challenging, but also the most rewarding of the four reads.
\nThinking, Fast and Slow<\/a>
\nby Nobel Laureate
\nDaniel Kahneman<\/a>
\n(
\nEconomic Sciences, 2002<\/a>
\n; shared with Chapman\u2019s own
\nVernon Smith<\/a>
\n) discusses the two modes of thought that most (all?) people possess. Fast, reactionary responses are governed by intuition, while slow, methodical approaches are typically viewed as \u201cthoughtful\u201d or \u201canalytical\u201d.\u00a0 As scientists, we often take pride in our constant use of the slow channel.\u00a0 We carefully and analytically break down our arguments, turn them inside out, and then reassemble them to ensure that they are robust, defensible, and ready for vetting by the scientific community.\u00a0 However, it is often the case that we do use our intuition and fast thinking to jump directly from data to inference without going down the rabbit hole associated with truly exhaustive experimentation.\u00a0 Without that fast thinking, we might never move forward to the breakthroughs, advances, and paradigm shifts in our thinking that make being a scientist so compelling and exciting.\u00a0 It remains our job to balance these two thought channels carefully and responsibly \u2013 to not get fooled by faulty intuition while not getting bogged down by the fear of being \u201cwrong\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I hope you have a chance to take a look at one or more of these over the summer \u2013 they may not be the guilty pleasure diversions you are looking for, but you just might do even more fantastic science after reading them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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