The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone by Philip Fernbach
Published 2017 · 296 pages · 81,400 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone to read?
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone scores 46 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 45 out of 100
- Cognitive-science vocabulary, glossed.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Clear, well-organised sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Experiments supporting a claim about collective knowledge.
- Information density: 58 out of 100
- Many studies, briskly summarised.
How The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone is regarded
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone holds a literary regard score of 39 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.