Mr. Tobias said that the sixth-grade scores appear to have been miscalculated because half of the questions on the test were assigned a greater level of difficulty than they deserved.
He miscalculated because we associate the supposed icy stillness of stone with ugly funeral monuments and pompous statues.
I am reminded of an epic Simpsons episode, "Thank God, It's Doomsday," where Homer discovers that his end of the world predictions were off because he miscalculated the number of people at the Last Supper.
"I personally miscalculated," she said, "because of my experience dealing with state legislatures, which handle a huge array of problems in a compressed period of time".
April 28 (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp said it would suspend its $4 billion stock buyback program and a planned increase in its quarterly dividend because it miscalculated the level of its capital after buying Merrill Lynch in 2009.
Monticello is also littered with endearing imperfections, such as the holes cut into the hall floor for that same clock, because Jefferson miscalculated the length of rope needed to suspend the cannonball-like weights that power it and indicate the day of the week.
The sponsoring business group, the New York City Partnership, has delayed awarding bonuses for the reading gains because a testing company miscalculated thousands of students' scores last year, and the school system is awaiting an audit to determine exactly what happened.
Mr. Brodd said Boeing's tests in 2007 might have miscalculated the likelihood of the problems because "when you're making stuff for the first time, you don't know" all the possibilities.
"People miscalculated," one of my Iranian friends said.
During the summer credit crunch, investors turned very wary of these kinds of bonds, in part because the ratings agencies seem to have miscalculated the risk of default on securities backed by American mortgages.
