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Being Wrong Adventures in the Margin of Error

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ISBN-10: 0061176052

ISBN-13: 9780061176050

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kathryn Schulz

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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/4/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

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.

The 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
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index