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100 1 $aSchulz, Kathryn.
245 10 $aBeing wrong :$badventures in the margin of error /$cKathryn Schulz.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bEcco Press,$cc2010.
300 $aviii, 405 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-391) and index.
520 $aJournalist "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."
505 0 $aPart I: The idea of error. Wrongology ; Two models of wrongness -- Part II: 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 -- Part III: The experience of error. Being wrong ; How wrong? ; Denial and acceptance ; Heartbreak ; Transformation -- Part IV: Embracing error. The paradox of error ; The optimistic meta-induction from the history of everything.
650 0 $aFallibility.
650 0 $aErrors.
650 0 $aDecision making$xPsychological aspects.
650 0 $aPhilosophical anthropology.
650 0 $aError.
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