Sentence examples for the wrong quantity from inspiring English sources

Still, according to some, the fair price of a bet on E measures the wrong quantity: not your probability that E will be the case, but rather your probability that E will be the case and that the prize will be paid, which may be rather less — for example, if E is unverifiable.

There were 224 content errors in 222 items; these most commonly involved not providing a suitable measuring device for liquid medicines (124; 55%), or dispensing the wrong quantity of medication (75; 33%).

A patient is optimally adherent if no doses are missed, no extra doses are taken, and no doses are taken in the wrong quantity or at the wrong time.

The Institute of Medicine estimates that about 530,000 ADEs occur annually among outpatient Medicare patients over the age of 65 and can be a result of forgetting to take medications, taking the wrong quantity, and taking the wrong medication, among other medication adherence related issues [ 3, 4].

There was no coördination of donations — people bought the wrong things or the wrong quantities.

Notably, the essential appeal to gambles again raises the concern that the wrong quantities are being measured — an inveterate gambler might overvalue, and a puritan might undervalue, a gamble compared to what their true credences would indicate.

Ketamine, a drug that can send users into truly terrifying places and is, when consumed in the wrong quantities, fatal, has become a kind of narcotic version of the cheeky house scene.

Leading CPOE-related errors included missing or erroneous sig (label directions) or patient instructions, wrong dose or strength, problems with wrong quantity or strength, scheduling problems (particularly related to inpatient orders and timing of stat vs continuing orders), delays in medication processing or administration due to confusing orders and wrong drug or wrong patient errors.

Yet, she said, "Rainfall comes at the wrong time, in huge quantities and stops when we need it most".

He had become a known quantity for the wrong reason.

Often its own producers treat it with colossal disrespect, planting the vines in the wrong places, choosing to harvest quantity over quality and making the wine with broad, careless brushstrokes rather than the meticulous pointillism a pure, transparent wine like Chablis requires.