Book description
How did security staff at LA International Airport miss 75% of
bomb-making materials that went through screening? Which way should
you turn before joining a supermarket queue? Why should a woman hope
it was a man who witnessed her bag being snatched? And what possessed
Burt Reynolds to punch a guy with no legs?
Human beings can be stubbornly irrational and wilfully blind ... but
at least we're predictably wrong. From minor lapses (why we're
so likely to forget passwords) to life-threatening blunders (why
anaesthetists used to maim their patients), Pulitzer-Prize winning
journalist Joseph T. Hallinan explains the everyday mistakes that
shape our lives, and what we can do to prevent them happening.
Joseph T. Hallinan, a former writer for
The Wall Street Journal,
is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University
.
He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.
