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Being Wrong : Adventures in the Margin of Error Paperback - 2011
by Kathryn Schulz
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- Title Being Wrong : Adventures in the Margin of Error
- Author Kathryn Schulz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, U.S.A.
- Date 2011
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0061176052I3N10
- ISBN 9780061176050 / 0061176052
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.1 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.79 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Philosophical anthropology, Decision making - Psychological aspects
- Dewey Decimal Code 128.22
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From the rear cover
To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. In Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken. Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Darwin, Freud, Gertrude Stein, Alan Greenspan, and Groucho Marx, she shows that error is both a given and a gift--one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and ourselves.