ABSTRACT
If you believe everything you are told by the media, your Gullibility Quotient is 100. If you don't believe anything they tell you, your GQ is 0 but you probably have a closed mind and rarely learn anything new. Minimifidianism (having little or no faith) can be as unproductive as gullibility. In steering a course between these two extremes, readers of this book may notice that the problem can be described in terms of Type I and Type II errors:
Believing something that is not true is a Type I error. Not believing something that is true is a Type II error. Bombarded as we are by news, facts, stories, myths, fiction, and outright lies, how can we sensibly decide what to believe?
