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Category - Non Fiction / Psychology
Format - Paperback
Condition - Poor
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Est. Publication Date - Jan 2011
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Comes from a clean, smoke-free, and pet-free home 📚 Book condition - poor; has major creases, highlights/writing, tears, discoloration, or stains but book is still readable, may be an ex-library copy Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schultz “Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.” —Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational, Being Wrong explores what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz argues that error is the fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.
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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
ISBN: 9780061176050
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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 W...
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