Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

by Kathryn Schulz

Book Overview

"Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it." --Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet 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 most everything...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061176044
• ISBN13: 9780061176043
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"