Bad Therapy offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and mind's of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson, who include their own therapy mishaps, interview twenty of the world's most famous pract…
This book offers a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of the profession's most famous authors, thinkers, and leaders when things aren't going so well. The authors interview twenty of the world's most famous practitioners who discuss their mistakes, misjudgements, and miscalc…
Praise for A.K. Dewdney's previous book, 2000f Nothing "An entertaining, stinging expos." In today's world, 'innumeracy' is an even greater danger than illiteracy, and is perhaps even more common. I hope that this wise and witty book will provide cures where they are possible, a…
In this entertaining expose of science gone awry, the author of "200% of Nothing" tells the stories of eight notorious cases of "bad science"--Research projects that turned out to be bogus, either because of faulty methodology or faulty interpretations of results.
This volume considers human error as a phenomenon to be understood so it can be effectively addressed, thus enhancing safety. This involves challenging the presumption that to err is human and supplanting it with a synthesis of insights conveyed by stories from the rarely consid…
Presenting the most recent development in econometrics, the unit-root field including error correction and co-integration, this text explains statistical procedures in detail, and emphasises the results of applications.
Meeting the issue -- The path less traveled -- Appraising the problem -- Joining the contest -- Fighting for Danny Smith -- The scope of suspicion -- Moving from defense to offense -- Getting to know patients -- Making sense of DSM -- What is meant by hysteria? -- Words, words, …
Explains how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assesses the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveals how it can be overcome.
Explains how and why we create fictions that absolve us of responsibility and restore our belief in our intelligence, moral rectitude, and correctness; assesses the potential repercussions of such a course of action; and reveals how it can be overcome.
This book examines four medical innovations that epitomize the pitfalls of progress: DES, a synthetic estrogen prescribed to millions of women to prevent miscarriages, which produced devastating side effects; the artificial heart; the 1976 swine flu immunization program; and gen…
From ancient Greek temples to twentieth-century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than success. The concept of error, according to the author, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, he rela…