Duncan J. Watts

Duncan J. Watts, a professor of sociology at Columbia University, is a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research. A former officer in the Royal Australian Navy, he holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University. He is the author of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Norton, 2003). He lives in New York City.

Books Authored

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Author(s):
Duncan J. Watts
Genre(s):
Planning & Forecasting, Medical Writing, Ethics

Everything Is Obvious: How Common Sense Fails Us

February 3, 2011
Reviewed by: 
Robert Schaefer

Everything Is Obvious is sectioned into two parts, the first, Common Sense, deals with the recognition that commonsense is anything but, and explores various types of errors in commonsense

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