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Books that remind us how easily we fall into error
A Listmania! list by Dr. Nicholas P. G. Davies (Halifax, UK)

1. Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz

The list author says:
	"superb description of both how good and how bad our thinking and believing is"

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(50 customer reviews)

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2. Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland

The list author says:
	"A classic account of our irrational ways"

�6.99 Used & New from: �1.41

(54 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

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3. The Dragons of Expectation: Reality and Delusion in the Course of History by Robert Conquest

The list author says:
	"How easily we have been wrong before"

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(7 customer reviews)

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4. What's Left?: How the Left Lost its Way: How Liberals Lost Their Way by Nick Cohen

The list author says:
	"An author sheds his earlier illusions"

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(40 customer reviews)

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5. Abolishing Performance Appraisals - Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead by Coens

The list author says:
	"How easily we can mismeasure others"

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(5 customer reviews)

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6. The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J Gould

The list author says:
	"How easily measurements combined with prior prejudice mislead us"

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(26 customer reviews)

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7. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful by Marshall Goldsmith

The list author says:
	"How little we know about our true self...until we have larnt from others"

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(19 customer reviews)

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8. The Crowd & Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Gustave Le Bon

The list author says:
	"We've been fooling ourselves for many years"

�27.54 Used & New from: �19.39

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9. Plundering the Public Sector by David Craig

The list author says:
	"after all surely someone with a clipboard and a watch knows so much more about our processes than we do?"

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(6 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

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10. How to Lie with Statistics (Penguin Business) by Darrell Huff

The list author says:
	"At least 50% of us are below average at spotting our errors"

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(25 customer reviews)

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11. Failing to Figure: Whitehall's Costly Neglect of Statistical Reasoning by Mervyn Stone

The list author says:
	"Sadly many of those in the lower 50% are in Whitehall!"

�6.75 Used & New from: �0.78

(1 customer review)

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12. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

The list author says:
	"There's a certain pattern to our irrationality"

�6.74 Used & New from: �4.80

(111 customer reviews)

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