Being Wrong - Kathryn Schulz
Being Wrong
Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz
For my family,
given and chosen
And for Michael and Amanda,
at whose expense
I wrote about what I knew
Contents
Part I The Idea of Error
1 Wrongology
2 Two Models of Wrongness
Part II The Origins of Error
3 Our Senses
4 Our Minds, Part One: Knowing, Not Knowing, and Making It Up
5 Our Minds, Part Two: Belief
6 Our Minds, Part Three: Evidence
7 Our Society
8 The Allure of Certainty
Part III The Experience ...