Roger Wilkins, professor of history and American culture at George Mason University, said Mr. Bush was mistaken in describing racial preferences in college admissions as "divisive," a term Mr. Wilkins said better applied to "those who go to Bob Jones University when they are in trouble".
But "The Waste Land" is infinitely better, in another universe, than "Prufrock"….I'm very hung up on these over-legible mistakes of preference.
"The whole Buckley experiment may have been a passing phase," says Lind – a strange interlude when a cohort of writers mistook their ideological preferences for the will of the people and, even stranger, provided the basis for an industry based on that delusion.
Preferences may be based on mistaken beliefs.
So we received some explanations of why people were not voting for "Beloved," the expected winner, and also one Roth fan's assertion that the presumptive preference for "American Pastoral" over "Operation Shylock" was self-evidently mistaken).
In this light, the threshold parameter, τ (described in section Decision rules), can be seen as a representation of the patient and family's preference for hospice care treatment and their risk tolerance for a mistaken referral.
In explaining its new preference for the unadjusted numbers, the Case-Shiller Home Price Index Committee said that the housing market crash had generated "unusual movements that are easily mistaken for shifts in the normal seasonal patterns".
Bias mistaken for accuracy.
Although patients may be mistaken in their perception of current practice, such gap has been well documented in previous studies under different settings, and has been attributed to the difference between patients' and physicians' declared preferences and between physicians' preference and what they actually do [ 5, 10, 37, 38].
