Sentence examples for chance of being wrong from inspiring English sources

Any business has a 50-50 chance of being wrong.

Two sigma, leaving a 2.5 percent chance of being wrong, is just high enough to jangle the nerves, however, and all of ours have been jangled enough.

Mr. Achen said he advised against calling Florida for Mr. Gore, saying that "it had a 10- to 15-percent chance of being wrong".

Even then, there's a high chance of being wrong, so the government reserves to be wrong by 100,000 jobs – or nearly the entire size of the group they're sampling.

You can check for errors, but any check itself has a small chance of being wrong.

But if fund managers go liquid, they have a 30% chance of being wrong and endangering their jobs.

This putative particle has become known as the Higgs boson, whose possible discovery was announced to the world on December 13th (see article).Physicists demand a level of proof that would in any other human activity (including other scientific ones) be seen as ludicrously high that a result has only one chance in 3.5m of being wrong.

If one wanted to push the case, the absence of the chance to be wrong invalidates all of DSM-IV-TR.

Pollsters currently suggest that only a minority of voters favour a "Brexit"; bookies put the chances of them being wrong about that at only about 30 per cent.

"The chances of you being wrong are far greater than you being right," he says.

Mr. Buffett says that "the chance of being way wrong about I.B.M. are probably less than being way wrong in Apple or Google".