Deadly decisions : how false knowledge sank the Titanic, blew up the shuttle and led America into war /

One of the country's leading experts on modern information management, searches the biology of the brain, the behavior of groups, and the structure of organizations for practical answers to the problem of "virtual truth": elaborate constructs of internally consistent evidence and assu...

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Main Author:	Burns, Christopher, 1942-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2008 Ipswich, MA : c2008 Amherst, N.Y. : 2008
Subjects:	Errors Group decision making Human information processing Information behavior Risk perception Deception Hoaxes Rationalization (Psychology) Thought and thinking Truth History

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