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Thomas Watson, the founder of IBM, once said, “If you want to succeed, raise your error rate.”
President George W. Bush made a tactical error in declaring a “global war on terrorism.”
In any case, there will be little room for error.
Macron’s underestimation of Benalla’s violence was a serious error, but it was not what Mélénchon, in an interview with Le Monde, called “an open door to a form of barbarism” and it certainly did not justify the subsequent paralysis of Parliament.
The crucial moment occurs when the "other's" differences can be perceived not as error, or as a fault, or as the product of a lesser, undeveloped version of what we are, but as the challenge posed by a viable human alternative.
This is a grave error.
While total construction spending recently rose by a very small 0.3% (less than the measurement error), private construction spending actually fell and residential construction was down a much more significant 4%.
An even more spectacular example of a statistical error and sleight of hand is the widely cited claim of Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that countries’ growth slows sharply if their debt/GDP ratio exceeds 90%.
As a result, “the opinion entertained by the laboring class, that the employment of machinery is frequently detrimental to their interests, is not founded on prejudice and error, but is conformable to the correct principles of political economy.”
Even more worrying are the downside risks of powerful new cyber, bio, and nanotechnologies: A few individuals, via error or terror, could ignite a societal breakdown so quickly that government responses would be overwhelmed.
This visit is not only a lost opportunity, given Russia’s need to modernize its economy and the help Japan could provide, but a grave strategic error in view of Russia’s increasing worries about China’s ambitions in Asia, which includes Russia’s lightly populated Siberian provinces.
It is in the nature of such research that it proceeds by trial and error.
This is a profound error.
That doesn’t mean that we cannot stumble into a war – or a nuclear exchange – through accident, miscalculation, system error, or sabotage; but, it hugely reduces the risk.
This compounded the error by adding to it a public relations disaster.
The root of their error lies in their confusion of cause and effect.
But even in Japan, annual deflation has been only about 0.7% since 1998, and was caused by a monetary-policy error unlikely to be repeated.
In any scientific or other investigation, there is always some margin of error or room for reasonable disagreement.
More mature firms have phased in formal protocols, with ethics officers, risk committees, and other structures that oversee how data are collected and used, though not always successfully (indeed, they often depend on trial and error).
The British government did the same, acting as midwife to the Lloyds-Halifax Bank of Scotland combine, now widely seen to have been a major error.
As legal pioneers in the US, both states will have to proceed by trial and error.
The topic was an obscure but large collection (more than 70) of diseases caused by a specific type of genetic error – one that takes place in the machinery of cells that chemically attaches sugars to proteins and lipids.
The error, to the extent that the generals make it, must operate at a more subtle level.
Let’s Get Real About MoneyThroughout the world, people suffer from a serious perception error that has inhibited them from taking concrete steps to protect themselves from inflation or deflation.
The error is called the “money illusion ” – the belief that a nominal unit of currency is the best measure of value, even though its real value is unstable.
“Where there is error, may we bring truth,” she announced on her entry to No. 10 Downing Street, quoting Saint Francis of Assisi.
For Thatcher, as for Hayek, the great intellectual error of the twentieth century was the belief that the state could improve on the spontaneous efforts of individuals.
The people of Crimea, he says, have corrected a historic Soviet error.
In comparison, the bonuses at Goldman Sachs are a rounding error.
For example, for the first time, North Korea’s prime minister publicly apologized for a policy error – the failure of the currency redenomination.
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