How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life

“We are predisposed to see order, pattern, and meaning in the world, and we find randomness, chaos, and meaninglessness unsatisfying." Thomas Gilovich's informative book How We Know What Isn't So pulls together dozens of examples to illustrate this thesis, although too many of them fail to go beyond the usual anecdotes common to behavioral psychology — e.g., the "hot hand" theory in sports and other reversion-to-the-mean type examples.