Why we're wrong about nearly everything : a theory of human misunderstanding /

Why we're wrong about nearly everything : a theory of human misunderstanding /

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"Smartphones shorten our attention spans and Twitter devalues critical thought. Fake news runs rampant on Facebook, clouding our perceptions. The internet has made us dumb, right? In fact, people don't need the internet to get things wrong. Bobby Duffy, a leading public policy researcher,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duffy, Bobby (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, 2019
Edition:First US edition
Subjects:
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge) > ^A1026959
Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
Knowledge, Sociology of > ^A1032351
Knowledge, Sociology of
Perception > ^A1047865
Perception
Truthfulness and falsehood > ^A1070239
Truthfulness and falsehood
Ignorance
Mensonge
Sociologie de la connaissance
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Statistics
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Decision-Making & Problem Solving
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Statistics
PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Statistics
Theory of knowledge
sociology of knowledge
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: perils everywhere
  • A healthy mind
  • Sexual fantasies
  • On the money?
  • Inside and out: immigration and religion
  • Safe and secure
  • Political misdirection and disengagement
  • Brexit and Trump: wishful and wrongful thinking
  • Filtering our worlds
  • Worldwide worry
  • Who's most wrong?
  • Dealing with our delusions
  • Introduction: perils everywhere
  • A healthy mind
  • Sexual fantasies
  • On the money?
  • Inside and out: immigration and religion
  • Safe and secure
  • Political misdirection and disengagement
  • Brexit and Trump: wishful and wrongful thinking
  • Filtering our worlds
  • Worldwide worry
  • Who's most wrong?
  • Dealing with our delusions

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