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Irrationality: The Enemy within

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Description for Irrationality: The Enemy within Paperback. New edition of this classic, challenging and thought-provoking book that draws on statistical concepts, probability theory and a mass of intriguing research to expose the failings of human reasoning, judgement and intuition. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JMH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338.

New, 21st anniversary edition, with a new foreword by Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science and Bad Pharma, and an afterword by James Ball, covering developments in our understanding of irrationality over the last two decades. Why do doctors, army generals, high-ranking government officials and other people in positions of power make bad decisions that cause harm to others? Why do prizes serve no useful function? Why are punishments so ineffective? Why is interviewing such an unsatisfactory method of selection? Irrationality is a challenging and thought-provoking book that draws on statistical concepts, probability theory and a mass of intriguing research ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pinter & Martin Ltd. United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780660257
SKU
V9781780660257
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Ref
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About Stuart Sutherland
Stuart Sutherland, born in 1928, was Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex where he founded the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology. A prolific columnist and contributor to the Observer, the New York Times and the Daily Telegraph, and is best known for his iconoclastic book Irrationality, which was first published in 1992, and Breakdown, his candid and movingly personal account of ... Read more

Reviews for Irrationality: The Enemy within
Terrifying, sometimes comic, very readable and totally enthralling
Oliver Sacks

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