Conscientious use of single, or the few best, indicators contributes to theory/model precision but it remains for the world to dictate whether the precise theory/model is valid or precisely wrong.
Like the bar talk encouraged by his company's products the pronouncement was precise, certain and wrong.
Ironically, this device was assembled incorrectly, resulting in an extremely precise (but wrong) shape for the mirror.
"The British political system is without a written constitution, and there are no rules for handling these events, in the sense that there is no precise right or wrong," said Tony Travers, the director of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics.
Even some recently published works including manuals, textbooks and lexicons, related to this topic contain inexact, not precise, discordant or wrong statements.
But also what annoys is getting wrong the precise meaning, the precise words, the attitude meant to be conveyed by the sentence.
White and others are not wrong: the precise economic conditions – namely, cheap rent – which created the cultural ferment of New York City in the late 70s do not exist in New York any more ("In Berlin, perhaps," White notes).
Without the right analytical methods, she believes, more data just gives a more precise estimate of the wrong thing.From the genesDr Ellenberg points out that services like 23andMe, which provide ancestral and medical interpretations of individuals' genetic information, have not yet delivered the revolution in health that many had expected.
Revicki and Frank conclude that cost-effectiveness studies with RCTs "may provide a very precise answer to the wrong question" [ 26].
