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010 _a2010282589
020 _a9780061176050
042 _alccopycat
050 0 0 _aBD171
_b.S3273 2010
082 0 0 _a128 SCH
100 1 _aSchulz, Kathryn
245 1 0 _aBeing wrong
_b: adventures in the margin of error
_c/ Kathryn Schulz
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York
_b: Ecco
_c, c2010.
300 _aviii, 405 p.
_b: ill.
_c; 24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [345]-391) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _aJournalist "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."
650 0 _aError
650 0 _aDecision making
_x--Psychological aspects
650 0 _aPhilosophical anthropology
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