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I am a physician, so was excited to read this book by an author in my field. The book is well organized and well written, and effectively uses clear examples to demonstrate common flaws in thinking. However, the concepts the author lays out are a very basic. This book might be most useful for a middle/high school audience, as adolescent and young adults hone their critical thinking skills. While the author claims that it is adults who often have deficient critical thinking skills, the 13 questions presented at the start of the book to support this assertion and the reasoning behind it is flawed. The results of those questions generally indicate "systematic error" in the absence of facts, but do not provide any insight into the types of error that occur in the presence of facts, which is what most of the remainder of the book discusses. Lastly, while it is certainly a worthwhile point that things are better than we think, I believe the book is incomplete; any discussion about whether the world is better/worse than we think must address not just the issue whether there has been progress (as a binary question), but also how the world is doing in its *rate* of progress , which the book fails to address.