You Are Not So Smart is a book about all the wonderful ways you delude yourself every day.
You could use a healthy dose of humility, and inside this book you’ll find new entries on topics like priming, expectation, confabulation, apophenia, normalcy bias, the fundamental attribution error, and many more along with expanded chapters on topics from the blog.With each new subject you will start to see how unaware of how unaware you are. You will soon realize you are not so smart, and thanks to a plethora of cognitive biases, faulty heuristics and common fallacies, you are probably deluding yourself minute by minute just to cope with reality. That’s ok though. We’re all in this together, and these are our shared mental stumbling blocks.
And we're giving away a copy of this great book!
To enter, please send an email with the subject header "NOT SO SMART" to geekcontest @ gmail dot com and answer the following question:
Author David McRaney produced this television show focusing on the music of the Deep South?
Please include your name and address (U.S. Residents only. You must be 18 years old).
Only one entry per person and a winner will be chosen at random.
Contest ends at 11:59 PM EST on November 18th, 2012.
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