Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

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“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a subject matter so central to our lives that we almost never even take into consideration it.”
—Bill McKibben, creator of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Incorrect, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens have a tendency to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they’re right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz, editor of Grist magazine, argues that error is the fundamental human condition and will have to be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Incorrect will change the way you perceive screw-ups, either one of the mammoth and day-to-day variety, ceaselessly.

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