How to delude yourself: ‘Robyn Dawes, a psychologist at Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh (Everyday Irrationality: How pseudo-scientists, lunatics,
and the rest of us systematically fail to think rationally, Westview Press),
wants to show us how to recognise thinking
that is not merely muddy or wrong, but
“irrational” in a strict sense, in that it leads the
thinker into a self-contradiction.’ New Scientist