To correct the bias of unmeasured factors, one may be tempted to adjust for the whole panel of m PVs simultaneously.
Then, it may seem natural to consider the observed association between the exposure and the control outcome as an estimate of bias due to unmeasured confounding, and one may be tempted to simply correct the confounded estimate of the exposure-outcome association by subtracting the estimated bias.
Third, secondary analysts may be tempted to sidestep the correct procedure for using PVs as outlined by Mislevy ([1991]) and others.
Sometimes the point is, more modestly, to assure or reassure oneself that the position one endorses, or is tempted to endorse, is correct.
The poem, tempting us to correct an ostensible error, leads us to make our own error; only when we go back and correct our correction does the poem's subtle play of one and many, past and future, presence and absence, become clear.
You may be tempted to interrupt to clarify something or to correct the other person, but you should remember what you wanted to say and save it until the end.
She helpfully advises skipping the first 200 pages and concludes: "If a book about the history of the 20th century had as many mistakes as this one, I am tempted to think that it would have been pulped and corrected".
Some readers will be tempted to quote Churchill here, supposedly to a pedant who corrected a sentence that ended in a preposition: "this is the kind of arrant nonsense up with which I will not put".
Correct example: "One might be tempted to agree without all the facts".[7].
