How long does it take to read Being Wrong?
Adventures in the Margin of Error
Kathryn Schulz
Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz takes about 7 hours 26 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 26 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 405 pages, about 111,375 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 26 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to the merits of our favourite team. Being Wrong looks at why this conviction has such a powerful grip on us, what happens when this conviction is shaken, and how we interpret the moral, political and psychological significance of being wrong. Drawing on philosophies old and new and cutting-edge neuroscience, Schulz offers an exploration of the allure of certainty and the necessity of fallibility in four main areas: in religion (when the end of the world fails to be nigh); in politics (where were those WMD?); in memory (where are my keys?); and in love (when Mr or Ms Right becomes Mr or Ms Wrong).
Subjects: Errors, Philosophical anthropology, Fallibility, Decision making, Psychological aspects, Error
