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irrationality
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hy do doctors, generals,
civil servants and others
consistently make wrong decisions r-
that cause enormous harm to
others? And why do you sit through
a boring play just because the tickets
were expensive?
Irrational beliefs and behaviours are
virtually universal. Not only gamblers
and parapsychologists but selection
committees and experts often fall into
simple statistical traps to do with sample
sizes or assuming causal links. In this
iconoclastic book Stuart Sutherland
analyses causes or irrationality and shows
that it is universal. Drawing on a mass of
intriguing lvsearch, he examines why we
are irrational, the different kinds of
irrationality, the damage it does us and
the possible cures.
"Consistently lively, arnusing
and intriguing."
British Journal Of Psychiatry
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"Highly informative."
Independent on Sunday
"Lively and readable."
Nature
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