The success of a research mathematician depends on recognizing his or her own errors (not having the teacher point them out for you!), correcting them, and also recognizing when a flawed assumption nevertheless has a grain of truth in it.
Q: He brought the action for divorce against you, correct?
"What it demonstrated," she said at lunch, "is that when you correct for noise, you can help children".
I will now demonstrate, with a nerdy table illustration, how you correct for things such as social and demographic factors.
Well, even if you correct for the jeering culture of the Web, the Chinese public has been barraged with official sex scandals of late.
If you correct for that, it lowers Mr. Ryan's odds to about 7 percent of becoming president after the 2016 election specifically, after having lost this one.
And we have lots of evidence that low socioeconomic status leads to higher mortality — even if you correct for things like availability of health insurance.
Fun historical fact: Interstellar's mothership film 2001: A Space Odyssey managed close to that just in US domestic on its original release, if you correct for inflation ($56.9m/$389.2m adjusted).
In a follow-up post that took account of Deaton's response, Gelman noted, "If you correct for the age-composition bias, about 2/3 of the observed change from 1999 to 2013 goes away".
And, as its former CEO said, once you correct "for people who are more design-appreciators than designers, it's probably closer to 6percentt".
