This will limit the risk of doing something wrong and applying the wrong type of care to your orchid.
But he also believes the financial authorities may be applying the wrong remedies to the housing market.
In fact, the European Central Bank has criticized governments for applying the wrong kind of austerity, increasing sales taxes for example when they could cut government bureaucracy.
Politics, he mused, was "the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy".
Three key mistakes I see time and again in these situations are missing the data basics, applying the wrong strategy, and losing the human touch.
Anthony Tommasini, at the New York Times, recently responded to a reader who complained that critics are applying the wrong criteria in evaluating potential successors to Gilbert — that they praise new-music specialists while the audience prefers masters of the tried and true.
Making such a distinction with traditional techniques is hard work, but it matters, because the treatments of the two types of leukaemia are different, and applying the wrong one significantly reduces the chance of recovery.
Referring to the slow economic recovery, Mr. Romney said that Mr. Obama has not helped the economy, because he has been applying the "wrong solutions" to the problem at hand.
Anthony Tommasini, at the New York Times, recently responded to a reader who complained that critics are applying the wrong criteria in evaluating potential successors to Gilbert that they praise new-music specialists while the audience prefers masters of the tried and true.
