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checkerboard illusion, 58–60, 65, 352n

child development, 100–101, 119–20, 289–92, 307, 385n

chimerism, 235

Chomsky, Noam, 119n

Christie, Agatha, 220

Clark, William, 48

Clement IV, Pope, 137

Clifford, William, 363n

Clinton, Bill, 88

Coetzee, J. M., 258, 382n

cogito, ergo sum, 318

cognitive development, 197–98

cognitive dissonance, 179, 179n, 194–95

“cognitive illusions,” 346n

coherencing, 57–58

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 37, 47, 371n

Collins, Phil, 260, 261

Columbia, 128

comedy, 321–26, 389–90n

Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare), 323–24, 325, 331n

Commodity Futures Trading Commission, 90

communication, 252–53. See also language

Communism (Communist Party), 13, 130, 285–88, 294

community beliefs, 133–58

Asch line studies and, 144–45, 155–56, 157

disagreement deficit and, 149–54

reliance on other people’s knowledge, 137–44

source evaluation and, 141–43

supression of dissent, 153–58

Swiss suffrage movement, 133–37, 146–48, 151

confabulation, 77–86, 165n, 354n

Confessions (Augustine), 140, 284

confirmation bias, 124–31, 243

conformity, 138–39, 139n, 144–45, 153–58

Constitution, U.S., 313–14

conversion stories, 279–81

Abdul Rahman’s story, 154–55, 156

C. P. Ellis’s story, 273–79, 280, 294–95

Cook, James, 353n

Copernicus, Nicolaus, 127, 357n

Coulter, Ann, 148n

Courbet, Gustave, 328

credulity, 167–68

cross-dressing theory of comedy, 324n

Cruikshank, George, 54

Cuban Missile Crisis, 153

’Cuz It’s True Constraint, 104–9, 130, 163

Dadaism, 328, 329

dark energy, 126n

dark matter, 126n

Darwin, Charles, 131–32

data, and error-prevention, 305–6

Davidson, Osha Gray, 275–76, 284n, 383n

death-wish response to error, 26–27

decision studies (error studies), 11–12

defensiveness (defenses), 213–18

“better safe than sorry,” 216, 216n

blaming other people, 215–16

certainty and, 165–70

denial and, 229–30, 306, 307

near-miss, 214–15, 216

out-of-left-field, 214–15, 216

time-frame, 213–14, 216

definition of wrongness, 10–17

Defoe, Daniel, 258, 382n

delusion, 38–39, 40, 351n

dementia, 80n

democracy, 311–16, 386n

denial, 209–10, 228–34, 375–76n

Innocence Project and, 233–39, 242–43

Dennett, Daniel, 369n

depression, 336

Descartes, René, 6, 33, 113–15, 118–22, 318–19, 349n, 362–63n

desegregation of schools, 274–77

desert mirages, 50

Design of Everyday Things (Norman), 211

despair, 258–59, 265

developmental psychology, 100–101, 197–98, 289–92, 307, 385n

deviance, 34–35n

Dickinson, Emily, 283

Diderot, Denis, 29, 38

direct elections, 312–14

disagreement deficit, 149–54

disillusionment, 53, 252n

distal beliefs, 95–96, 359–60n

distribution of errors theory, 34–35

Divine Right of Kings, 312

divorce, 248–49, 266–69

divorce rate, 268–69n

DNA testing, 222–23, 226–27, 376n, 379n

error rate, 223n

Innocence Project, 227, 233–39, 242–43

dogma (dogmatic beliefs), 287. See also certainty

Don Quixote, 41–42, 337

Dorfman, Ariel, 371n

doubt, 33, 114–15, 165n, 318–19

certainty vs., 165–70

John Kerry campaign and, 174–77

Shakespeare’s Hamlet and, 170–73

undecided voters and, 177–78

Douglas, William, 68, 77

dreams (dreaming), 35, 36–38, 78–79

drug states, 36–37, 38

Dunbar, Kevin, 372n

Durant, Will, 164

Durham Human Relations Commission, 275–79

Dwyer, Jim, 244n

Dylan, Bob, 198n

Eastern Airlines Flight 401, 63, 64

Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, 73

economic crisis of 2008, 87–90

Edson, Hiram, 207, 211–14

effeminacy, 370–71n

Eisman, Steve, 89

Eliot, George, 328

Ellis, Claiborne Paul (C. P.), 273–79, 280, 294–95

embracing error

Optimistic Meta-Induction from the History of Everything, 320–39

paradox of error. See paradox of error

empathy, 164, 332

Encyclopédie, 29, 38

End of Faith, The (Harris), 363n

Enlightenment, 33, 312, 313, 350–51n

epilepsy, 79–80

epistemology, 11–12, 116n, 130

Equal Rights Amendment, 135–36

er, 41

eradicating error, 29–32, 327

Erasmus, Desiderius, 38–39, 263

erasure of past errors, 18–22, 186–87

“erratic,” 41

“error,” 20, 21, 41

error-blindness, 18–19, 32, 158, 262

error