Anthony Tommasini, at the New York Times, recently responded to a reader who complained that critics are applying the wrong criteria in evaluating potential successors to Gilbert — that they praise new-music specialists while the audience prefers masters of the tried and true.
It's an important job; if the wrong criteria are chosen, the most important events could be missed.
I did suspect I was doing something wrong – or, perhaps more accurately, intuited that, while I was completely right, others were judging me by their own, wrong criteria – when I kept getting the stinkeye on the bus whenever I told my son to be quiet because "nobody else needs to hear you".
Again, however, the majority asks the wrong question and misapplies the criterion.
I once asked the artist David Salle if he had read an article in The New Republic by Jed Perl (who also frequently writes for Hilton Kramer's The New Criterion) about how the wrong artists are celebrated and how the really good artists are obscure.
27, 29 As mentioned earlier, some studies have suggested that many of nonclassic ALMS cases could go unnoticed, taking into account the current diagnostic criteria and if the wrong molecular strategy is followed.
An ironist may worry "that she has been... taught the wrong language game," but "she cannot give a criterion of wrongness".
Howe (a great essayist, who was, in his last years, the closest thing I've had to a mentor) had his criteria wrong, and he picked the wrong writers to put in a color-coded box.
The third criterion is the fraction of reads mapped to the wrong reference sequence if we intentionally add reference sequences from a diverged species.
