The middle is where we happen to be right now—a fact that is responsible for our faulty perception of the earth's climate as accommodating and stable.
The faulty perception of a new age of productivity growth has served as a kind of skyhook on which Wall Street has hung some of the most optimistic stock-market valuations in history.
This faulty perception, that what might be termed "traditional" violent crime is high and rising, is fostered by a media fixated on an old-fashioned agenda.
For his part, Mr. Vallone said that those pushing to take power from the speaker's office have a faulty perception of how much control the speaker actually exerts.
Designating certain breeds as inherently dangerous implies to the public that behavior is not effectively influenced (positively or negatively), by training, and also encourages the faulty perception of other breeds as being inherently safe.
My father lay there, the damaged product of a faulty perception and aggressive nature that had already reared its unfortunate head a few times before; the dents, the scratches on his car were proof of that.
Many fast-food portions are two to five times large than they were 50 years ago, contributing to "portion distortion," a phenomenon where we have a faulty perception and consider oversize portions to be normal.
Skeptic Michael Shermer claims that the emergence of the "Paul is dead" phenomenon, including the alleged message at the end of "I'm So Tired", was caused by faulty perception of a pattern.
But according to a new piece of research, many of these actions however virtuous arise from faulty perceptions of energy savings.Shahzeen Attari of Columbia University and her colleagues used Craigslist, an online marketplace, to recruit 505 volunteers from across America.
Pius XII has been accused of being "the supreme bystander," Hilberg says, but should instead be seen as exemplifying the predicament confronted by everyone caught up indirectly in the Holocaust, beset by dangers and confusion, limited by faulty perceptions and "delineated by... nationality and temperament, much as all the inhabitants of Europe".
If you start thinking about our faulty perceptions, the first thing you realize is that markets are not perfectly efficient, people are not always good guardians of their own self-interest and there might be limited circumstances when government could usefully slant the decision-making architecture (see "Nudge" by Thaler and Cass Sunstein for proposals).
