Being wrong

Being wrong: adventures in the margin of error

by Schulz, Kathryn

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"In Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships--whether between family members, colleagues, neighbors, or nations. Along the way, she takes us on a fascinating tour of human fallibility, from wrongful convictions to no-fault divorce; medical mistakes to misadventures at sea; failed prophecies to false memories; 'I told you so!' to 'Mistakes were made.' Drawing…

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Title Statements

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

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"In Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships--whether between family members, colleagues, neighbors, or nations. Along the way, she takes us on a fascinating tour of human fallibility, from wrongful convictions to no-fault divorce; medical mistakes to misadventures at sea; failed prophecies to false memories; 'I told you so!' to 'Mistakes were made.' Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Darwin, Freud, Gertrude Stein, Alan Greenspan, and Groucho Marx, she proposes a new way of looking at wrongness. In this view, error is both a given and a gift--one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."--Publisher's Web site.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011, ©2010.
  • Edition:First Ecco paperback edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Ecco
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2011, ©2010.

The Physical Object

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

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780061176050, 0061176052, 9780061176043, 0061176044
  • oclc:ocn988422416
  • LC Classification:BD171
  • Dewey Decimal:121/.6

Table of Contents

PART ONE: The idea of error -- Wrongology -- Two models of wrongness

PART TWO: 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

PART THREE: The experience of error -- Being wrong -- How wrong? -- Denial and acceptance -- Heartbreak -- Transformation

PART FOUR: 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…

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Schulz, Kathryn

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