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Being Wrong :

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0061997935

(Number (ISBN

9780061997938

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b766422

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EB00233404

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Recorded Books

Title Proper

Being Wrong :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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Adventures in the Margin of Error /

First Statement of Responsibility

Schulz, Kathryn.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[Place of publication not identified] :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

HarperCollins,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2010.

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1 online resource

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (416 pages)

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Electronic book.

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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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To err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. If being wrong is so natural, why are we all so bad at imagining that our beliefs could be mistaken, and why do we react to our errors with surprise, denial, defensiveness, and shame?In Being Wrong, journalist Kathryn Schulz explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships?whether between family members, colleagues, neighbors, or nations. Along the way, she takes us on a fascinating tour of human fallibility, from wrongful convictions to no-fault divorce; medical mistakes to misadventures at sea; failed prophecies to false memories; "I told you so!" to "Mistakes were made." Drawing on thinkers as varied as Augustine, Darwin, Freud, Gertrude Stein, Alan Greenspan, and Groucho Marx, she proposes a new way of looking at wrongness. In this view, error is both a given and a gift?one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves. In the end, Being Wrong is not just an account of human error but a tribute to human creativity?the way we generate and revise our beliefs about ourselves and the world. At a moment when economic, political, and religious dogmatism increasingly divide us, Schulz explores with uncommon humor and eloquence the seduction of certainty and the crises occasioned by error. A brilliant debut from a new voice in nonfiction, this book calls on us to ask one of life's most challenging questions: what if I'm wrong?

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3M Cloud Library

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unyz9

Decision making-- Psychological aspects.

Errors.

Fallibility.

Philosophical anthropology.

Decision making-- Psychological aspects.

Errors.

Fallibility.

Philosophical anthropology.

PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY.

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Edition

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Book number

Schulz, Kathryn.

3M Company.

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20201206114440.0

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[Book]

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