Quotes About Error

You should see that a bigger sample makes for a shrinking standard error, which is how large national polls can end up with shockingly accurate results.

The standard error measures the dispersion of the sample means.

When a goalkeeper makes a mistake, there is no one to save the goal.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

'Karzzz' was a mistake.

I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.

Everyone is flawed and everyone makes mistakes and is culpable.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

We're all men, not machines. We make mistakes.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

I've gotten very alert not just to mixed metaphor but to any writing mistake.

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

All are by nature prone to err both in public and in private life, and no law will prevent them. Men have gone through the whole catalogue of penalties in the hope that, by increasing their severity, they may suffer less at the hands of evil-doers. In early ages the punishments, even of the worst offences, would naturally be milder; but as time went on and mankind continued to transgress, they seldom stopped short of death.

asking about sampling errors and margins of error, debating if the number is rising or falling, believing, doubting, analyzing, dissecting—without taking the time to understand the first and most obvious fact: What is being measured, or counted? What definition is being used? Yet while this pitfall is common, it doesn't seem to have acquired a name. My suggestion is "premature enumeration.

their mistakes. Most individuals suffer from the same problem. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. 9

Anyone can make an error, Ensign. But that error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." He raised a finger—

No battle plan can anticipate all contingencies. There are always unexpected factors, including those stemming from the opponent's initiative. A battle thus becomes a balance between plan and improvisation, between intellect and reflex, between error and correction.

To err is human. To kill is evil.

But if Marx errs, his error does not lie, as his critics often allege, in underestimating "innate human selfishness." Instead, his error—and, again, it is the common error today—lies in the other direction, in underestimating the capacity of subjects to act against their self-interest.