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Page after page of insight from Being Wrong. - Goodreads That's comforting advice. - Goodreads The writing style presenting the idea was cumbersome. - Goodreads I liked the foundation and the premise of this book. - Goodreads But I like Kathryn Schulz's prose. - Goodreads That's not to say I'm exempt from Schulz's research. - Goodreads Review: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of ErrorUser Review - Abdulrahman - Goodreadsso yes. this is NOT a light read, as a start.. considering that I had to translate/comprehend/critic the ideas all at once. It kinda took me 2 hours to finish 30 pages or so.. *english is my 2nd ... Read full review Review: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of ErrorUser Review - Cyndie - GoodreadsNot your typical book about error. Instead of talking about how to prevent mistakes, she talks about how we should think about being wrong. She discusses the moral overtones so frequently associated ... Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesanswer argued asked Avery beliefs bias blind spot brain C. P. Ellis called can’t certainty chapter claim cognitive comedy comes confabulation confirmation bias conviction Cuz It’s True defense denial Descartes doubt Ellis emotional error evidence example existence experience explain face fact faith fallibility false feel friends Greenspan Hamlet happened Hirstein human idea illusions imagine inductive reasoning Innocence Project intellectual kind lives look matter means memory Miller Millerites mind mistakes moral naïve realism nation Neufeld never ourselves patient Penny people’s percent person Peter Neufeld Philip Tetlock philosopher Plato political possible problem psychologist question quotation reality relationship Ross Ross’s sense Six Sigma someone sometimes Steven Avery story suggests talk theory there’s things thinkers Thomas Gilovich thought tion told truth trying turn understand University vote what’s William Hirstein women words wrong wrote Bibliographic information
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