The phrase "a wrong outcome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing results or consequences that are incorrect or undesirable in various contexts, such as decision-making, experiments, or assessments.
Example: "After reviewing the data, we realized that the changes we implemented led to a wrong outcome in our analysis."
Alternatives: "an incorrect result" or "a negative result".
An audit with that guarantee is called "risk-limiting". The risk-limit is the largest chance a wrong outcome will slip through.
"A risk-limiting audit should be able to correct a wrong outcome, but count as few ballots as possible if the outcome is right.
The ballots audited must also be sufficiently comprehensive to limit the risk of a wrong outcome, providing confidence "that the winner won". Audit protocols should also be efficient.
The ballots audited must also be sufficiently comprehensive to limit the risk of a wrong outcome, providing confidence "that the winner won".
The judge also seemed to be rejecting the Democrats' argument that the several hundred votes for Mr. Gore that turned up in the incompleted manual recounts in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Counties also should be considered as evidence of a potentially wrong outcome in a race where the winning margin was 537 votes.
Such students come to college focused on the "wrong outcome"—a high GPA thinking "they're keeping their eyes on the ball, they are actually just staring at the scoreboard". While this affirms their measure of performance as long as their grades exceed their efforts, it can create a problem when their efforts exceed their grades.
But her death nonetheless seemed like the wrong outcome — an instant that could have gone differently, a story that could have unfolded otherwise.
In the heat of competition, Mr. Bronfman broke with decorum by deprecating Vivendi's alternative, a partnership with NBC, as "exactly the wrong outcome".
On Thursday, Mr. Bronfman, who remains a large shareholder in Vivendi, told The Financial Times that a deal between Vivendi and NBC would be "exactly the wrong outcome," adding that NBC executives "have never run a studio, an entertainment cable network or a theme park".
The wrong outcome from this review risks driving a wedge between developers and conservationists at a time when we ought to be co-operating more than ever". Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said she strongly supported the aims of the Habitats and Birds Directives which "protect our rarest, most threatened habitats and species" and wanted to "maintain the integrity" of the EU laws.
In the past year, this has resulted in a substantial drop in two-way trade in important sectors like textiles, exactly the wrong outcome.
