Being wrong

Being wrong: adventures in the margin of error

by Schulz, Kathryn

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Journalist "explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift -- one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Being wrong : adventures in the margin of error / Kathryn Schulz.

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Journalist "explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift -- one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2010
  • Edition:First ECCO paperback edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ecco
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2010

Notes

This iten was donated by Martha Thompson in memory of Joyce McLauglin.

The Physical Object

  • Description:viii, 405 pages : illustrations : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780061176043, 0061176044, 9780061176050, 0061176052
  • oclc:on1191845333
  • LC Classification:BD171
  • Dewey Decimal:121.600

Table of Contents

The idea of error. Wrongology ; Two models of wrongness -- The origins of error. Our senses ; Our minds, part one: Knowing, not knowing, and making it up ; Our minds, part two: Belief ; Our minds, part three: Evidence ; Our society ; The allure of certainty -- The experience of error. Being wrong ; How wrong? ; Denial and acceptance ; Heartbreak ; Transformation -- Embracing error. The paradox of error ; The optimistic meta-induction from the history of everything.

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Subjects

Anthropologie philosophique Decision making -- Psychological aspects Error Faillibilité Fallibility Philosophical anthropology Prise de décision -- Aspect psychologiq…

Writers

Schulz, Kathryn

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