عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
BD171 .S3273 2010
BD171
.
S3273
2010
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0061176044
(Number (ISBN
0061176052
(Number (ISBN
9780061176043
(Number (ISBN
9780061176050
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b535811
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Being wrong :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
adventures in the margin of error /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kathryn Schulz
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Ecco,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2010]
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2010
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
viii, 405 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations,
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-391) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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."
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Decision making-- Psychological aspects
Error
Fallibility
Philosophical anthropology
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
121/
.
6
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
BD171
Book number
.
S3273
2010
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Schulz, Kathryn
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20110616043650.0
Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))
rda
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
