And face it, most of us prefer being wrong in groups than wrong all alone.
Probably one would prefer a "wrong, but useful" model, despite possibly violating some underlying model assumptions [ 21].
What's immoral and destructive is using the legal system to destroy people's lives based on preferring the wrong (fun) drug or in Moseley's case the wrong (fun) carnal feat.
First, there's the ordinary business of expressing a view about the economy that the reader disagrees with – e.g., "Krugman is wrong, because the government can't create jobs"; or, if you prefer, "Casey Mulligan is wrong, because we're suffering from demand problems, not supply problems".
Further data show that we're wrong, and we prefer not to be wrong, so people change their positions with new evidence.
I prefer to be wrong than to compromise.
"As a professional writer, you can choose which count you would prefer to be wrong on...."....
Psychometricians generally reject items with certain statistical profiles, particularly those for which moderately scoring students prefer a particular wrong answer with greater frequency than their lower-performing classmates (Sadler, 1998).
I now believe, however, that his technological pessimism is wrong — or if you prefer, it's the wrong kind of pessimism.
