Being Wrong
Adventures in the Margin of Error
New York : Ecco Press, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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."
Subjects:
Errors.
Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Fallibility.
Errors.
Decision making -- Psychological aspects.
Philosophical anthropology.
Fallibility.
ISBN:
9780061176043
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Sch | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
SOCIAL SCI Sch | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-391) and index.