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Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.

 

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error.

 

Once upon a time, everybody knew the sun revolved around the Earth -- until we realized it didn't. From celestial mechanics to the best way to avoid traffic, there are a bunch of things that everyone believes right now that are just plain wrong. And while it's hard to admit we got it wrong, Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong, argues that it's time to embrace our errors. After all, she says, making errors is inevitable. "The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number," Schulz tells NPR's, Neal Conan. But being wrong can be unsettling, even scary. At the heart of why we hate being wrong, Schulz says, is that "we're terrified of feeling out of control. We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know." And when we finally realize we're wrong, Schulz says, "we want to fall into a hole in the ground or we want to disappear. We want to die."

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Kathryn Schulz on Being Wrong

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