We take this approach because writing a model is a creative effort in which the user should be allowed to make temporary "mistakes" and recover from them at a time that is convenient rather than having to focus on correct syntax at all times.
Not for the last time, as Macey notes, Fanon "mistook temporary changes born of extraordinary circumstances for a permanent revolution".
States cut taxes and raised spending too much in the boom years of the 1990s, mistaking temporary windfalls from capital gains (among other things) for a permanent increase in revenues.
If central bankers mistake a temporary rise in uncertainty for a permanent shock, they may, say, cut interest rates by more than they need to, with inflationary results.
However, union leaders should not mistake their temporary good fortune for vindication.
Mr. Geithner said even a temporary extension would be a mistake.
We lack evidence to decide whether this mistake reflects a temporary reasoning glitch, a deeper misunderstanding of the relevant scaling concepts, and/or a tendency toward imprecision about mathematical details (reflected also, perhaps, in her glossing over the distance-squared dependence in Fick's law).
"We figured we could afford to make mistakes in the temporary building that we couldn't make in the permanent one," said Scott Moran, the academy's senior project manager.
We argue that previous descriptions of subdominant male P. aegeria adopting a patrolling strategy are based on too short observation periods, and have mistaken males in temporary transit for males adopting patrolling behaviour.
When something does go wrong, it's a temporary glitch, an accident, a dumb mistake.
