title: Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
author:  Kathryn Schulz 
description: &#8220;A mirthful and wise diagnosis of what ails us: Schulz dances us through science, psychology, and literature in a sparkling history of (and ode to) human error.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly)<br /><br />&#8220;[A]n insightful and delightful discussion of the errors of our ways. . . . Schulz remains good company -- a warm, witty and welcome presence. . . . [S]he combines lucid prose with perfect comic timing. . . . <i>Being Wrong</i> is smart and lively.&#8221; (New York Times Book Review)<br /><br />&#8220;So, please take this advice: Read BEING WRONG, because it&#8217;s the right thing to do.&#8221; (Lisa Ko, author of <em>The Leavers</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;Kathryn Schulz&#8217;s brilliant, spirited, and necessary inquiry into the essential humanity of error will leave you feeling intoxicatingly wrongheaded.&#8221; (Tom Vanderbilt, bestselling author of TRAFFIC)<br /><br />&#8220;[A]n unusual examination of the virtue and peril of being wrong and of all the ways we think we know things that just ain&#8217;t so.&#8221; (Boston Globe)<br /><br />&#8220;Engrossing.... In the spirit of Blink and Predictably Irrational (but with a large helping of erudition)... Schulz writes with such lucidity and wit that her philosophical enquiry becomes a page-turner.&#8221; (Publishers Weekly <strong>(starred review)</strong>)<br /><br />&#8220;Kathryn Schulz has given us a brilliant and remarkably upbeat account of the long history of human error. If Being Wrong is this smart and illuminating, I don&#8217;t want to be right!&#8221; (Steven Johnson, bestselling author of THE GHOST MAP and EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD FOR YOU)<br /><br />&#8220;Kathryn Schultz is engaging, witty and fascinating as she uses a full arsenal of academic research, colorful stories, philosophical arguments and personal anecdotes to create a riveting account of why we, mostly, have been wrong about being wrong.&#8221; (Frans Johansson, author of THE MEDICI EFFECT)<br /><br />&#8220;Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise...[BEING WRONG] could also be enormously useful&#8212;there are very few problems we face...that couldn&#8217;t be helpfully addressed if we we were willing to at least entertain the idea that we might not be entirely right.&#8221; (Bill McKibben, author of EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet)<br /><br />&#8220;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&#8217;s lovely to watch this idea warm in Ms. Schulz&#8217;s hands.&#8221; (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
zlib_text: Where We
  Went Wrong
   
  a novel by
  Kelsey Kingsley
  
  COPYRIGHT
   
  © 2020 Kelsey Kingsley
  All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from
  the publisher, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law. For permissions contact:
  kelsey@kelseykingsley.com
  Cover: Danny Manzella
  Editor: Jessica Blaikie
  
   
  Table of Contents
  TITLE
  COPYRIGHT
  DEDICATION
  A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
  PROLOGUE
  CHAPTER ONE
  CHAPTER TWO
  CHAPTER THREE
  CHAPTER FOUR
  CHAPTER FIVE
  CHAPTER SIX
  CHAPTER SEVEN
  CHAPTER EIGHT
  CHAPTER NINE
  CHAPTER TEN
  CHAPTER ELEVEN
  CHAPTER TWELVE
  CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  CHAPTER NINETEEN
  CHAPTER TWENTY
  CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  CHAPTER THIRTY
  CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  
  CHAPTER THIRTY