Deadly decisions
Subtitle: how false knowledge sank the Titanic, blew up the shuttle and led America into war
By: Christopher Burns.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781591026600
Subjects: Errors
Description: One of the country's leading experts on modern information management, searches the biology of the brain, the behavior of groups, and the structure of organizations for practical answers to the problem of "virtual truth": elaborate constructs of internally consistent evidence and assumptions that purport to describe reality but can often be dead wrong.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.