Sentence examples for wrong approximately from inspiring English sources

Skepchick founder Rebecca Watson has a video that explains studies around false rape accusations; she astutely points out, "If you always believe the alleged rapist, then you will be wrong approximately 98 times out of 100".

J. Samsó informs us that Ptolemy's calculation of the apogee was wrong by approximately 30º and that az-Zarkâllah calculated the apogee in another work only with an error of 10º (Samsó 1993 1994, pp. 676 677).

("Approximately zero lives per year are saved by airport security measures," he writes, though he admits he could be wrong about this).

'Near miss' events make up a third of all SHOT reports, about 70% of these are clinical errors, including approximately 100 wrong blood samples caught for every one that results in a wrong component transfusion.

In addition, when pedigrees are known to contain more than approximately 15% wrong parent information (misidentified fathers plus mothers) in a panmictic population, conservationist should consider alternative breeding methods, because expected gain is relatively low compared to alternatives like optimal management of mate selection across multiple generations.

(Update: A spokesman for Paulson called after this post was published to note that the protester had it wrong. Paulson did earn approximately that much in 2010, but his firm lost money in 2011).

I think this idea is approximately 180 degrees wrong.

I maintain that although it is hard to answer these questions well, it is better to answer the right questions approximately than the wrong questions exactly.12.12

Less than 1% of the paired reads were inverted (one of the reads in other orientation than expected) or everted (both reads in other orientation resulting in wrong order of tags) and approximately 10% were mapped remotely (i.e., to a distant genomic position, significantly deviating from what is expected based on the insert-size distribution).

They don't skimp on the toppings and at 45 pesos (approximately $3), you cannot go wrong.

Using the wrong one may result in a reading approximately 5% off, which may be acceptable for non-laboratory purposes.[1].