Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average Hallinan Joseph T.Paperback
We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn t).…
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We forget our passwords. We pay too much to go to the gym. We think we d be happier if we lived in California (we wouldn t), and we think we should stick with our first answer on tests (we shouldn t). Why do we make mistakes? And could we do a little better?We human beings have design flaws. Our eyes play tricks on us, our stories change in the retelling, and most of us are fairly sure we re way above average. In Why We Make Mistakes, journalist Joseph T. Hallinan sets out to explore the captivating science of human error how we think, see, remember, and forget, and how this sets us up for wholly irresistible mistakes.In his quest to understand our imperfections, Hallinan delves into psychology, neuroscience, and economics, with forays into aviation, consumer behavior, geography, football, stock picking, and more. He discovers that some of the same