Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

by Kathryn Schulz

Book Overview

Of all the things people are wrong about, our condemnation of error should top the list. It is our meta-mistake: we are wrong about what it means to be wrong. Far from being a sign of intellectual inferiority, the capacity to err is crucial to human cognition. Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061176052
• ISBN13: 9780061176050
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9"