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A review by christinalepre
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
2.0
I didn't finish this. I read more than halfway through, but I couldn't see the point in continuing on when I wasn't enjoying the book anymore or getting much from it. The premise of the book is interesting, but it's too long and there's far too much philosophizing here.
I would have loved to have had this as a reference for the senior seminar I took in college on 'Media and Belief.' A lot of the discussion on belief and belief communities was intriguing to me, since I wrote a paper on belief communities for that course. That said, I'm not sure who the market is intended to be; this won't work as a popular science book (which is what I thought it was), but it's a little informal for an academic text. Nonetheless, the book has value, it just didn't appeal to me as I thought it would.
Update: Just discovered the author's blog on Slate in which she interviews very interesting people about wrongness, which I found delightful and engaging: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/default.aspx
I would have loved to have had this as a reference for the senior seminar I took in college on 'Media and Belief.' A lot of the discussion on belief and belief communities was intriguing to me, since I wrote a paper on belief communities for that course. That said, I'm not sure who the market is intended to be; this won't work as a popular science book (which is what I thought it was), but it's a little informal for an academic text. Nonetheless, the book has value, it just didn't appeal to me as I thought it would.
Update: Just discovered the author's blog on Slate in which she interviews very interesting people about wrongness, which I found delightful and engaging: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/default.aspx