num_pages: 339
description: 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 everything. Kathryn Schulz editor of Grist magazine argues that error is the fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error from Socrates to Alan Greenspan Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups both of the mammoth and daily variety forever.
language: English
title: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
publisher: Ecco