A carregar...

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (edição 2011)

por Kathryn Schulz (Autor)

Membros	Críticas	Popularidade	Avaliação média	Menções
938	25	22,483	(3.96)	75
Journalist "explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift -- one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."… (mais)

▾Informação sobre o livro

Membro:	kairfa
Título:	Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
Autores:	Kathryn Schulz (Autor)
Informação:	Ecco (2011), Edition: Reprint, 405 pages
Coleções:	A sua biblioteca
Avaliação:
Etiquetas:	mdoris

Informação Sobre a Obra

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error por Kathryn Schulz

todos os membros

▾Membros

Adicionado recentemente por

JoeB1934, JFBCore, mizcorbie, stopcrates, judico51, hughiec, angelaface, Albertos

▾Etiquetas

▾Recomendações do LibraryThing

▾Listas

Top Five Books of 2014 (570)

Club Read's Recommended Nonfiction Written by Women (115)

▾Vai gostar?

A carregar...

Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro.

▾Discussões (Ligações acerca)

Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.

» Ver também 75 menções

▾Críticas dos membros

data ▼ | votos

Mostrando 1-5 de 25 (seguinte | mostrar todos)

I received this book with high hopes from a GoodReads givaway a year ago. Try as I might I just couldn't get into it. I love the idea of talking about "Being Wrong" but the author just put to paper a string of often disjointed and incomprehenisble ramblings. Disappointingly the gems of stories she shares are lost and any point she attempts to make are beyond lost. This book could have been so much better with some clearly developed ideas supported by interesting and illuminating stories but it was just a plain mess. (

)

AmandaPelon | Aug 26, 2023 |

This book explores the psychology of being wrong. Schulz's thesis is that while being wrong can sometimes be bad, even tragic, our attitudes toward wrongness are more negative than they should be. Although being wrong can lead to problems from embarrassment to death, most instances of being wrong provide an opportunity for learning and growth. Being wrong, or at least the psychological pattern of being wrong, is the basis of much humor and art. Humor often works by setting up an expectation and then defying it. Art is often meaningful in so far as it brings to awareness the gap between what is represented and the representation. Being wrong, in short, is how we learn and how we find meaning in life.

Being Wrong does not have the scientific depth of my favorite books in the popular psychology genre, but it was still a good read, and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in how and why the mind gets things wrong. (

)

eri_kars | Jul 10, 2022 |

To be fair, I didn't get very far. I liked the premise and the introduction was clever, but there just wasn't enough to justify a book. Could have made a great, punchy article. (

)

Venarain | Jan 10, 2022 |

Great topic and explanation.
150 Pages of documentation. (

)

evil_cyclist | Mar 16, 2020 |

Very good. The basic premise is that being wrong is not all that bad. Sometimes it is essential in one way or another. (

)

Floyd3345 | Jun 15, 2019 |

data ▼ | votos

Mostrando 1-5 de 25 (seguinte | mostrar todos)

▾Críticas publicadas

2 críticas

adicionar uma crítica

thingScore 100

What is most cherishable about this bumper book of other people's booboos is its insistence that to experience error is, at its best, to find adventure – and even contentment. Schulz takes as her model Don Quixote, the knight-errant who was wrong about almost everything. "Countless studies have shown that people who suffer from depression have more accurate world views than non-depressed people," she points out.

adicionada por mikeg2 | editarThe guardian, Stuart Jeffries (Aug 28, 2010)

“Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error" is an insightful and delightful discussion of the errors of our ways — why we make mistakes, why we don’t know we are making them and what we do when recognition dawns.

adicionada por melmore | editarNew York Times, Daniel Gilbert (Jul 23, 2010)

▾Outros autores

» Adicionar outros autores

Nome do autor	Papel	Tipo de autor	Obra?	Estado
Kathryn Schulz	—	autor principal	todas as edições	calculado
Barron, Mia	Narrador	autor secundário	algumas edições	confirmado

▾Séries e relações entre obras

▾Awards and Honors

Prémios

Guardian First Book Award (Shortlist – 2010)

Ohioana Book Award (Finalist – Não Ficção – 2011)

Distinctions

Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Não Ficção – 2010)

Notable Lists

30 Nonfiction Books That Are Sure to Make You Smarter

ver história

▾Conhecimento Comum

Tem de autenticar-se para poder editar dados do Conhecimento Comum.

Para mais ajuda veja a página de ajuda do Conhecimento Comum.

Título canónico

Informação do Conhecimento Comum em italiano. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.

L'arte di sbagliare. Avventure nel margine d'errore

Título original

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Títulos alternativos

Data da publicação original

Pessoas/Personagens

Locais importantes

Acontecimentos importantes

Filmes relacionados

Epígrafe

Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.

Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting that that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has not reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field, the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities. -- Benjamin Franklin, Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and Other Commissioners, Charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism, as Now Practiced in Paris (1784).

Man: You said pound cake. Woman: I didn't say pound cake, I said crumb cake. Man: You said pound cake. Woman: Don't tell me what I said. Man: You said pound cake. Woman: I said crumb cake. Man: I actually saw the crumb cake but I didn't get it because you said pound cake. Woman: I said crumb cake. Man: Well, I heard pound cake. Woman: Then you obviously weren't listening. Crumb cake doesn't even sound like pound cake. Man: Well, maybe you accidentally said pound cake. Woman: I said crumb cake. -- overhead in Grand Central Station, November 13, 2008.

Dedicatória

Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.

For my family, given and chosen. And for Michael and Amanda, at whose expense I wrote about what I knew

Primeiras palavras

Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.

Why is is so fun to be right?

Citações

Últimas palavras

Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês. Edite para a localizar na sua língua.

(Carregue para mostrar. Atenção: Pode conter revelações sobre o enredo.)

Nota de desambiguação

Editores da Editora

Autores de citações elogiosas (normalmente na contracapa do livro)

Língua original

DDC/MDS canónico

LCC Canónico

▾Referências

Referências a esta obra em recursos externos.

Wikipédia em inglês (4)

Franz von Liszt

Kathryn Schulz

Mike McGrath

Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/smartpeoplepodcast.com

▾Descrições do livro

Journalist "explores why we find it so gratifying to be right and so maddening to be mistaken, and how this attitude toward error corrodes relationships." She claims that "error is both a given and a gift -- one that can transform our worldviews, our relationships, and, most profoundly, ourselves."

▾Descrições de bibliotecas

Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas.

▾Descrição de membros do LibraryThing

Descrição do livro

Resumo Haiku