Irrationality: The Enemy Within
- ISBN-10
- 1780660286
- ISBN-13
- 9781780660288
- Series
- Irrationality
- Category
- Errors
- Pages
- 454
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Author
- Stuart Sutherland
Description
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 statistica.
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- 2020-12-08
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