Being wrong
John Myhill feels this book should be on every Quaker bookshelf
Being wrong: Adventures in the margin of error by Kathryn Schulz. Ecco. ISBN: 978 0 06 117604 3. £16.50.
‘Consider it possible that you may be mistaken’: this famous Quaker advice is given far-ranging support in this book. Animals and computers cannot make mistakes as we do. Computers cannot jump to conclusions by intuition, guesswork, imagination and inspiration – no shortcuts. This is why decisions that are simple to us are impossible to a computer. But inevitably, we also make mistakes. It is the downside of the shortcuts that gave us such an evolutionary advantage. Those who can recognise that they were wrong have a further advantage in that they can take shortcuts to a more useful answer.
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