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To the Editor: I’m not sure how a mere A.B. from Princeton (’51) found the temerity to challenge a Ph.D. from MIT (and professor at Harvard), but an error in the recent Other Voices essay “VIX Surge Is a Wake-Up Call for Investors” is so egregious and so pervasive that I just can’t help myself.
Was it monetary policy error or something else?
The search for the optimum equilibrium is a never-ending process of trial and error.
To wait for the big threat is no answer to NATO’s problems, on the contrary, it would be a fatal error.
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error,” said the Roman philosopher Cicero.
“Isn’t she wonderful,” he is reported to have said to an aide, one hand over the telephone, as she scolded him from London for some US policy error.
Of course, addressing the challenges China faces will require plenty of trial and error – much like that which enabled its past development – not to mention acceptance of some economic casualties.
The EU is about to commit a grave strategic error by allowing its report this autumn to be guided by the short-sighted domestic policy considerations of some of its important member states.
As in all previous years, human error of various kinds was responsible for most of these deaths.
And the November figure will be adjusted downward because of a recently discovered statistical error by Canadian authorities.
As a result, the negotiations have far more serious political implications – and far more room for error.
Although the agreement with Iran objectively makes Israel safer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu considers it a historic error.
Without realizing it, Germany is repeating the tragic error of the French after World War I. Prime Minister Aristide Briand’s insistence on reparations led to the rise of Hitler;Angela Merkel’s policies are giving rise to extremist movements in the rest of Europe.
With incomplete models of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter-productive.
One error is to reject a true proposition; the other is to accept a false one.
One is that the AWF error won’t occur, because there are no reliable ex ante signs of rising potential instability.
Thus, there is no excuse for the outrage, the exaggerated claims for one paper’s influence, and the attempt to use the error to discredit legitimate concerns over high levels of debt (let alone to vilify the authors).
Handing over any local power before those leaders are ready to use it would be an error, with potentially disastrous consequences.
“And we must not commit the fatal error of destroying the state.”
It would be a tragic error to forget about them because of technicalities over funds, quotas, or tariffs.
As a result, Russia’s current challenging of the territorial integrity of Georgia might prove to be a grave error in the not-so-distant future.
Many people remain in the growth-only camp only because of an error in deductive reasoning; unlike committed ideologues, they can be weaned from their position.
In fact, venturesome trial and frequent error have driven human development.
The European Environment Agency’s Scientific Committee has called it a “mistaken assumption” based on “a serious accounting error,” because if a forest is cut down to burn wood, it will take a long time for new growth to absorb the CO2 emissions.
According to the Committee’s members, “the potential consequences of this bioenergy accounting error are immense.”
Some might object that these events were not really social epidemics like speculative bubbles, because a totalitarian government ordered them, and the resulting deaths reflect government mismanagement more than investment error.
The European Union has urged Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to reconsider their strategies, arguing that “the death penalty doesn’t act as a deterrent to crime, and any error of judgment is impossible to correct.”
To take one prominent example, there is a 25% margin of error on purchasing-power-parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.
The Committee initially found Lomborg guilty of much the same error that he had alleged of the ecologists.
The accusatorial system is designed for those relatively rare cases when error slips through the peer-review net, resulting in some concrete damage to health or the environment, or causing the corruption of later research that assumes the validity of fraudulent work.
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