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“A funny and philosophical meditation on why error is mostly a humane, courageous and extremely desirable human trait. <Schulz> flies high in the intellectual skies, leaving beautiful sunlit contrails....It’s lovely to watch this idea warm in Ms. Schulz’s hands.” (Dwight Garner, New York... read more
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Characters/People edit
- C. P. Ellis: Add a description of this character.
- P. Ellis
- Steven Avery
- John Ross
- William Miller
- Alan Greenspan
- Chris
- Atwater
- Neufeld
- Augustine
- Descartes
- Hannah
- Freud
- William James
- Kuhn
- Elizabeth O'donovan
- Felder
- Sally
- Anita Wilson
- Don
- Shakespeare
- Hendrix
- Socrates
- Abdul Rahman
- Nagel
- Judas
- Roger
- Hiram Edson
- John Kerry
- Asch
- Wittgenstein
- Francis
- Beerntsen
- Neisser
- Anton
- Laplace
- Lear
- Elizabeth
- Bartlett
- Aquinas
- Josephus
- Michael Mcgrath
- Himes
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- Switzerland
- United States
- Iraq
- New York
- America
- Klan
- Neptune
- Montana
- Durham
- Beth Israel
- France
- Uranus
First Sentence edit
Why is it so fun to be right?
Authors & Contributors edit
- Kathryn Schulz (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ecco
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
ISBN: 0061176044
Page Count: 416
Publisher: Ecco
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
ISBN: 0061176044
Page Count: 416
Awards edit
- Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (2010: Nonfiction)
- Guardian First Book Award (Finalist, 2010, shortlist)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 128
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Being Wrong: The website for the book.
- This American Life Episode 293: A Little Bit of Knowledge: As the author describes in Chapter 4, " the thing that we all do at some point: Talk expertly about something we don't actually know anything about. It's so common, explains This American Life contributing editor Nancy Updike, that some friends of hers invented an imaginary magazine devoted to such blathering. It's called 'Modern Jackass.'"
- 99% Invisible: Episode 52- Galloping Gertie: The great design podcast 99% Invisible describes the faulty construction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, and includes excerpts of interviews with Kathryn Shulz and "On Being Wrong."
- Too Much Information: Mistakes Were Made: Kathryn Shulz on the Too Much Information program: "Kathryn Schulz wants us to think differently about being wrong, William Kleinknecht wants us to think differently about Ronald Reagan, Mishka Shubaly relates a wicked wrong tale about hot girls on the internet, and Cheryl Rogers discovers something is wrong with internet love. Plus Anonymous Lady gets her “enemy” fired from the culture magazine."
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