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Errornomics
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407030531
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288

Errornomics

Why We Make Mistakes and What We Can Do To Avoid Them

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1 July 2010
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1 Oct 2009
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A smart, engaging and eye-opening explanation of why we make mistakes and what we can do to avoid them

How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75% of bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs?

Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind ... but at least we're predictably wrong. From minor lapses (why we're so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why anaesthetists used to maim their patients), Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Joseph T. Hallinan explains the everyday mistakes that shape our lives, and what we can do to prevent them happening.
  • Published: 1 July 2010
  • ISBN: 9781407030531
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 288
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Joseph T. Hallinan

Joseph Hallinan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, has been writing about the criminal-justice system for almost a decade, first as a local reporter and later as a nationally syndicated correspondent for the Newhouse News Service. In 1997, Hallinan was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, where he continued to investigate American prisons. He now writes for The Wall Street Journal and lives in Chicago.
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