You Know What They Say--: The Truth about Popular Beliefs

by Alfie Kohn

Book Overview

How much wisdome is there in folk wisdom? Are boys really better than girls at math? You Know What They Say. . .takes a sometimes unsettling look at the truth in truisms. Both witty and well-researched, it is packed with surprising facts that readers will soon be quoting to their friends.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060160403
• ISBN13: 9780060160401
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Exactly what it says

This book is exactly what the title says: the truth about popular beliefs. Kohn goes through numerous widely-held truisms and seriously investigates them using all the tools of science at our disposal. The result is always interesting, often fascinating, and sometimes completely surprising. Kohn has always challenged the conventional wisdom; this book simply goes after its most blatant form.