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Irrationality: The Enemy Within - Softcover

Stuart Sutherland

 
9781780660257: Irrationality: The Enemy Within
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1780660251 ISBN 13: 9781780660257
Verlag: Montag & Martin, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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 to expose the failings of human reasoning, judgement and intuition. The author explores the inconsistencies of human behaviour, and discovers why even the experts find it so hard to make rational and unbiased decisions. Written with clarity and occasional flashes of wry humour, this classic volume is just as relevant today as when it was first written twenty-one years ago.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 his manic depression.

He died of a heart attack in 1998.

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Verlag
Montag & Martin
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1780660251
ISBN 13 
9781780660257
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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