Everyday irrationality : how pseudo-scientists, lunatics, and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally / Robyn M. Dawes.
Dawes, Robyn M., 1936-2010.
2001
BF442 .D39 2001 (Mapit)
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Title Everyday irrationality : how pseudo-scientists, lunatics, and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally / Robyn M. Dawes.
Author Dawes, Robyn M., 1936-2010.
ISBN 081336552X
Imprint Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.
Language English
Description xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number BF442 .D39 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 153.4/3
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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