Schulz, Kathryn

Being wrong : adventures in the margin of error / Kathryn Schulz - New York : Ecco 2010 - viii, 405p. : ill. ; 24cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-391) and index

Journalist "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."

9780061176043


Fallibility
Errors
Decision making--Psychological aspects
Philosophical anthropology

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