Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Kathryn Schulz

339 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational comes Being Wrong, an illuminating exploration of what it means to be in error and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about almost ever...

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