Science writer Malcolm Gladwell fell for a mathematician's claim to be able to predict divorces with 94% accuracy and the Freakonomics team fell for the erroneous claim that beautiful parents are more likely than ordinary-looking parents to have female babies.
In particular, it should not fall victims to the erroneous "article of faith" that some data are always better than no data.
However, context information is often unreliable as it is gathered by sensors which can be imprecise or erroneous, e.g., fall detection sensors are known to often generate false positives.
For instance, for a known M-PSK constellation A = α i, i = 0, 1, …, M − 1, considering a particular point X = α k, then the erroneous decision falls into its neighboring points {αk−1,αk + 1} and the corresponding set of the error is α k − 1 − α k, α k + 1 − α k with equal probability.
Only a small proportion of the LDL-C measurements had implausible values, but erroneous measurements that fall within the range of plausible values may have caused misclassification between LDL-C subgroups.
Since the energy function in (17) is nonconvex, the level set evolution equation in (18) is likely to fall into local minima, which brings about erroneous segmentation results.
Although Israeli spokesmen told Gussing that Quneitra had actually been looted by the withdrawing Syrians, the UN representative viewed this as unlikely given the extremely short space of time between the erroneous radio announcement and the fall of the city a few hours later.
All flow values that do not fall into this bin are counted as erroneous.
Without the erroneous finality of the statue falling, this argument goes, the notion of "Mission Accomplished" would have been more difficult to assert; the Bush Administration would have had a harder time dismissing an insurgency that, for a fatal interlude, it all but ignored.
The second erroneous answer provided by RxList.com fell under the OTC category, but was again a dosage related error.
Speculation that the numbers are erroneous may cause futures prices to fall when the weekly report is released today at 10 30 a.m.
