Sentence examples for average wrong from inspiring English sources

I got Joe Dimaggio's lifetime batting average wrong in one Trib column, igniting a verbal explosion from McCrary that reverberated through the ninth floor of the NBC studios.

The average of wrong matches varies between 1.17 and 1.4 node-pairs in the worst cases.

Trump provided no evidence that the 25% average is wrong.

So how could these polling averages be wrong?

Moreover, given that, on average, something goes wrong with 3-53-5% appointmentsenthathalsolso gives them great insight into what goes wrong, when it goes wrong but also gives them an opportunity to solve any problem very quickly.

On average, getting it wrong cost plaintiffs at about $43,000; the total could be more because information on legal costs was not available in every case.

"There is a very upper-middle-class flavor to liberalism, and that's just bound to rub average people the wrong way," Mr. Frank said.

(Again with the fruit!) The average is the wrong measure to use when a set of numbers contains extreme outliers — in this case, the whopping refunds received by a very few, very wealthy families.

One could point out that the drug laws police enforce were passed with racially discriminatory intent, that collectively punishing black people based on "average behavior" is wrong, or that – as a self-fulfilling prophecy – bias can turn into statistical discrimination (if black people's cars are searched more thoroughly, for instance, it will appear that their rates of drug possession are higher).

Doctors asked one question on average — "What's wrong with you?" — and spent less than two minutes per patient.

The conventional wisdom that says the best sellers just do more of the same things than average sellers is wrong.