Dan Gardner
Dan Gardner (born April 8, 1968 ) is a Canadian journalist and non-fiction author .
Life
Gardner studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School ( LL.B. , 1992) and history at York University ( MA , 1995). Then he worked as an employee for a politician. He has been on the editorial staff of the Ottawa Citizen since 1997 . He has been nominated for most of the major journalistic awards in Canada and has won several. He is currently a columnist . He describes himself as neither liberal nor conservative .
Gardner lives in Ottawa with his wife and three children.
job
After Gardner met Paul Slovic in 2005 , he began work on his 2008 book Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear . It was published in 11 countries and 7 languages and was a best seller in the UK and Canada. The book is about risk perception and has been recognized by Slovic.
His second book was published in 2010 under the name Future Babble . The question is why predictions are often trusted even though they are wrong. Philip Tetlock and Steven Pinker were enthusiastic about the book.
Books
- Risk: The Science of Fear . Virgin Books, 2008. ISBN 1905264151 .
- Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway . McClelland & Stewart, 2010. ISBN 0771035195 .
Web links
- Gardner website
- Gardner talk on Risk: The Science of Fear , Authors @ Google, January 13, 2010.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gardner, Dan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1968 |