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Being wrong adventures in the margin of error

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." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift--one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, m...

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Main Author: Schulz, Kathryn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Ecco Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Hays, Sara Light tribute.
Fallibility.
Errors.
Decision making > Psychological aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Summary: 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." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift--one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."
Physical Description: viii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780061176050
0061176052
9780061176043
0061176044
Author Notes: Kathryn Schulz is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, Foreign Policy, the Nation, the Boston Globe, and the "Freakonomics" blog of the New York Times. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley.

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