Osborne says the OBR figures are based on an erroneous understanding of what the next government will do.
Caplan's point is that voters' views on the economy are not random, the result of "rational ignorance"; they reflect systematic biases caused by an erroneous understanding of the way economies work.
Nevertheless, a good many commenters remained committed to their erroneous understanding of the case, some castigating Ms. Liebeck as foolish for driving with liquid she must have known would be hot.
Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, opened an investigation last month into whether his company has been overcharging the military for its contract in Iraq, although Mr. Sargeant said Mr. Waxman's office had an erroneous understanding of what the company was billing.
Even among people who are more experienced in statistics, like researchers, erroneous uses of conventional methods are common: misuse of tests of significance, erroneous understanding of p-values, misinterpretation of confidence intervals (as pointed out by many authors [15, 18, 19, 24, 27, 32]; see also [5, 11, 28]).
Conceiving of law as ideological above all else in the Marxist sense can promote a crude and erroneous understanding of the relation between power and legality, where law serves only the interests of the powerful and where legal guarantees are mere shams.
And in this, it is preferable to the erroneous understanding of many academic psychologists.
But I suspect the erroneous understanding of King is based on intoxicating the culture with Cheap King -- the non-abrasive hero who is suitable for framing but offers no other value.
Whether it's liberals like Rangel invoking the civil rights era against the Tea Party, or conservatives like Drudge comparing Obama to Hitler, such childish attempts at historical comparison merely trivialize atrocities and serve to demonstrate an erroneous understanding of history.
With bridging analogies, instructors provide a series of links between a student's correct understanding and the situation about which he or she harbors an erroneous understanding.
