When Schulz suggests that memory and imagination are essentially forms of error — the perception of events that aren't actually happening — we wonder what she could be thinking, and why we didn't think of it first.
If there is no irony intended in this puzzling double-edged comment, and if Gilbert really agrees that memory and imagination are forms of error, I'd like to register my strong dissent.
Daniel Gilbert, in his review of Kathryn Schulz's "Being Wrong" (July 25), maintains that for Schulz, "memory and imagination are essentially forms of error -- the perception of events that aren't actually happening," and comments, "We wonder what she could be thinking, and why we didn't think of it first".
In environmental circles, this approach goes under the name of the precautionary principle because of how it approaches two forms of error.
Senior colleagues, facility administrators and others such as medical licensing authorities should be informed of serious forms of error, so that preventive education and strategies can be designed.
Combining both forms of error (failing to account for censoring and restrictive linkages), multiple factors and characteristics were both over and underestimated by 10% or more and include: military paid births, Alaska Native mothers, marital status, low education, child sex, young maternal age, maternal smoking during the 2 years before pregnancy, and reporting moving 12 months prior to birth.
The forms of errors made by children may be diagnostic of the different underlying language processing difficulties seen in different children.
It is clear that a promising line of research is to examine in greater detail the forms of errors that children make in sentence repetition tasks (see Nag et al., 2013; Moll et al., 2013).
"Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error," the novelist George Eliot once dryly remarked.
