Unusual or not, for the students who were whipsawed into thinking that Cornell -- their first-choice school -- had changed its mind, the errors added one more layer of distress and confusion to an already emotionally charged process.
Now, however, she has changed her mind, claiming errors in conviction of innocent people as her reason.
I don't mind minor errors; I expect some poetic license; and I do get that fiction is not real.
It is nevertheless important to keep in mind that errors could arise because the samples used for the independent and dependent variables were different.
"But all the way through AR5, they have had at the back of their minds the errors of AR4 (the previous report)" said Mr Klein, referring in particular to its claim that the glaciers of the Himalayas were very likely to disappear by altogether 2035.
She is an innocent in a threatening environment, a cheerful young woman with a tendency to make mind-boggling errors, like deciding to tidy up her chemistry bench, always failing to look over her shoulder and see the monster approaching from behind.
A simple reason comes to mind: No factual error has been found in "Fahrenheit 9/11"; most of the material there, while deeply embarrassing to President Bush, is well established.
When estimating Eq. 1, we should bear in mind that the error term may be correlated with education due to two kinds of endogeneity: selection bias and reverse causality.
"I was on large conference call yesterday and we all prayed that this woman will change her mind, see the error of her ways, feel the quickening of her baby, and have a change of heart".
One should bear in mind that the error estimate is nevertheless conservative (i.e. likely to be underestimated), because (i) the method is based on normal approximation, (ii) we ignore time-dependent dynamics including public health interventions, and (iii) we ignore heterogeneous transmission (see Discussion for (ii) and (iii)).
