The airline, which carries more passengers within the United States than any other, disputed an estimate that one-third of its flights took off after faulty calculations of the weight of checked bags, but it declined to give a figure.
Part of the faulty calculation is a disposition to focus on revenue and ignore many of the costs – particularly the indirect ones, needed to address increases in traffic and thus pollution; crime, littering and so on.
A canny Ayn Rand sycophant might argue that selfishness pursued at the expense of outcomes reflects faulty calculation or execution.
Trump is a business man, and he has chosen the strategy of unapologetically pandering to the more radical arms of his base and excluding moderate voters in a faulty calculation that will surely cost him the election.
Of course, these numbers may seem a bit low if you're still going on the false idea that pre-orders alone reached 1.5 million, a count which blazed across the internet as a result of some faulty calculations in a Motley Fool story.
Under Obama, the EPA had dismissed many of these concerns as vague accusations and faulty calculations, highlighting in an evaluation a "wide range of technology pathways available" that "will save consumers money, significantly reduce GHG emissions and fuel consumption, and provide benefits to the health and welfare of Americans".
The authors of the review take pains to point out that "adolescents' greater involvement than adults in risk-taking does not stem from ignorance, irrationality, delusions of invulnerability, or faulty calculations". So where does it come from?
If that interpretation turns out to be right, it will shed light on the workings of the strong force, Dr. Eichten said: his faulty calculations assumed that the two quarks whirled around each other like the proton and electron of a hydrogen atom.
Mr. Wirasena protested that the study's authors used low-quality data and made faulty calculations.
Lombardi's best guess is that the faulty calculations were done by someone in the World Trade Department, a euphemism for employees who reported directly to Tozzoli.
