(A common error in choosing a discount rate for a project is to apply a WACC that applies to the entire firm.

The error margin is narrow. Here I put life expectancy at birth, from 30 years in some countries up to about 70 years.

Pınar Selek was not only at the wrong place at the wrong time. She was also born in the wrong country.

Fadil was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

They've slept with the wrong person. They've taken the wrong substance.

Misdirection.

Error Details

Where is the mistake?

Perseverance in error does not correct the error it merely exacerbates it.

Close Error Report

I got on the wrong train.

I got on the wrong bus.

How is the error observed?

Where was the mistake?

The Wrong Austerity Cure

To Err is Science

Belgium

The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.04.

I got on the wrong bus.

You made the same mistake.

Tom got on the wrong train.

Tom got on the wrong bus.

Tom made the same mistake again.

Tom took the wrong bus.

Error in electronic communications

I went to the wrong address.

I believe you dialed the wrong number.

What went wrong?

The Mismeasure of Poverty

The World Bank s Wrong Choice

Getting them wrong and wrong and wrong, and then on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.

Source ECLAC (2005a) based on data from CIEN and SIECA.

Europe s Digital Wrong Turn

And queen! Queen, with misdirection.

It's a matter of right and wrong.

She has made the same mistake as last time.

It was a mistake to refuse his assistance.

You made the same mistake.

When did the error occur?

The dishes got sent to the wrong table.

We indicted the wrong person for homicide.

Tom gave Mary the wrong key.

Investors will not repeat that mistake once bitten, twice shy.

The Error of the War on Terror

Bush is similarly mistaken.