Flatt, who skated last, also had errors on some of her jumps in the free skate.
Two articles focusing on the deaths in custody of young people between the ages of 18 and 24 had errors in statistics.
There are other, more sophisticated swing models, but they are either so far untested in a general election or have also had errors in their past predictions.
About 5 percent of consumers in a new study had errors in their credit reports that could lead to them paying higher rates for loans.
Still, it was enough to redeem herself after a disastrous short program, in which she had errors on such basic elements as a spin and a spiral.
Earlier this year, Atlas confided in Dwight Garner, over at Paper Cuts, his slight exasperation at writers begging him not to send out galleys that had errors in them: "Are you aware that it costs $4.50 to produce a galley?
This is not the first time city officials have acknowledged problems with the self-certification system; a 2006 Buildings Department audit of large-scale projects that had been self-certified found that roughly half of them had errors.
In June, U.S. PIRG, the Washington lobbying office for state Public Interest Research Groups, released a survey showing that 80percentt of credit reports had mistakes; one in four had errors serious enough that credit could be denied.
A recent study by the trade commission found that roughly 5 percent of consumers had errors in their credit reports that could result in higher interest rates on loans.
Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission completed a multiyear study of credit-report errors and found that nearly 20 percent of consumers had errors in at least one of their credit files, and that 13 percent saw an improvement in their scores when the errors were corrected.
GM said Neil's column had errors.
