Being Wrong - Kathryn Schulz [200]
identification, 253–55, 255n
ideology, 17–18, 126–27, 142, 142n
Idiocy Assumption, 108, 109
idol of the Cave, 138
idol of the Marketplace, 138
idol of the Theater, 138
idol of the Tribe, 138
“I don’t know,” 70, 82–85
ignes fatui, 33
ignorance, 82–85
Ignorance Assumption, 107–8, 109
illusions, 53–61, 64–66
mirages, 50–52
optical, 58–61, 324–25
Illusions: A Psychological Study (Sully), 29, 31, 39, 53, 191, 348–49n
imagination, 30, 164, 328
imitation, and art, 326–29
impetuousness, 282
implicit assumptions, 91–93, 358–59n
inattentional blindness, 62–63
incongruity theory of humor, 323–24, 390n
inductive reasoning, 115–22
biases, 122–32
Inevitable Illusions (Piattelli), 5, 346n
inferior mirages, 51
Innocence Project, 227, 233–39, 242–43
insanity. See madness
insight, 39–40
insult effect, 151n
International Union of Operating Engineers, 279
Interpretation of Cultures, The (Geertz), 166
n in the dark, 53
Investigative Judgment, 212–13
Iraq War, 64n, 128, 152, 175, 176, 196–97n, 214
“I told you so,” 8, 197n
“I was wrong,” 7, 18, 20, 184, 217
Wrong Buts. See Wrong Buts
Jackson, Jesse, 294
Jacobs, Enoch, 208, 374n
James, William, 25, 28–29, 71, 82, 93–94, 96, 133, 165–66, 165n, 167, 217n, 359n, 363n
Janis, Irving, 152–53
Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie, 292–93, 337
Jastrow, Joseph, 29–30, 31, 153–54, 349n
Jefferson, Thomas, 141, 312–13, 314
Jenkins, Harold, 170
Jillette, Penn, 150–51
Joan of Arc, 198n
Johnson, Calvin, 238
Jones, Ward, 105, 323, 361n
Josephus, 160–61, 160n
Judas of Galilee, 159–61
juif errant, 41–43
Jung, Carl, 287
Kant, Immanuel, 60n, 323
Keats, John, 329–30, 391n
Keech, Marian, 179–80
Keeler, Leo, 28, 346n, 354n
Kennedy, John F., 72, 73, 152, 153
Kerry, John, 174–77, 371n
Kerry, Teresa Heinz, 175
Kertscher, Tom, 380n
Keynes, John Maynard, 176
Kierkegaard, Søren, 259, 323
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 273, 274, 295
King Lear (Shakespeare), 39–40, 172
Klahr, David, 372n
knight errant, 41–43
knowledge, 67–86
beliefs vs., 70–71, 90–91
of the body, 67–69, 79–82
certainty vs., 163–64
confabulations and, 77–86
memory failures and, 71–77
perception and, 53–54
reliance on other people’s, 137–44
Kocourek, Tom, 380n
Kolbert, Elizabeth, 367n
Kraepelin, Emil, 82
Krugman, Paul, 90
Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, 229–30
Kuhn, Thomas, 125–27, 126n, 167, 186, 187n, 208, 349n
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 273–79, 284n, 294–95
Lake Wobegon Effect, 106–7
Lancaster Sound, 48–50, 353n
Landsgemeinde, 147–48, 151
language, 97, 98, 116n, 119–21, 252–53, 307–9
Lanir, Zvi, 374n
Laplace, Pierre-Simon, 34–35
La Rochefoucauld, François de, 263
Larousse, 29, 348n
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, 94
laughter, 321–26, 389–90n
Lee, Keunwoo, 210n
Leka, Donald, 122–23
Leno, Jay, 175
Letters on Natural Magic (Brewster), 63–64
Levin, Harry, 390n
Levitt, Arthur, 90
Levy, Paul, 301, 302, 304–5, 316, 385n
Lewis, Meriwether, 48
Lewis, Michael, 89
Limits to Growth, The, 25–26
Linton, Ralph, 31
listening, 309–11
Liszt, Franz von, 223–24, 377n
Locke, John, 22, 139, 253
“losing face,” 26
love, 259–72
characteristic emotions of falling in, 261–62
in literarature, 251–52, 260–61
notion of, 259–66
rift between us and the world, 253–59
self-knowledge and the self, 283n
tools for understanding one another, 251–53
Lynch, Jessica, 64n
Lynd, Helen Merrell, 191, 373n
Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 154n
lysenkoism, 154n
McArdle, Megan, 196–97n
McCain, John, 177
McGrath, Michael, 234–37, 245–46, 379n
McGregor, Angus, 128
machines, and belief, 334–35
Mack, Maynard, 172n, 390n
MacMillan, Donald, 52n
Madison, James, 314
madness, 35, 38–40, 41, 190
Madoff, Bernie, 187, 215–16
Magliozzi, Ray, 141
Magliozzi, Tom, 141
Maistre, Joseph-Marie de, 312
“management by fact,” 305–6
Margalit, Avishai, 142, 250n
Mariana Trench, 141
market self-regulation, 87–90
Markus, Greg, 185, 371–72n
Masada, 161, 161n
May, Rollo, 178–79, 326
Mbeki, Thabo, 232, 379n
Meadows, Donella, 26
medical errors, 299–302, 301n, 304–6,