TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schulz,Kathryn
TI  - Being wrong: adventures in the margin of error 
SN  - 9780061176043
AV  - BD171 .S3273 2010
U1  - 128 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ecco
KW  - Error
KW  - Fallibility
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-391) and index; 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
N2  - 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."
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010282589-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1013/2010282589-d.html
ER  -