Saturday 12 February 2011

Being Wrong

Being Wrong
Author: Kathryn Schulz
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0061176052



Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error


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-Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of 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, editor of download

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