Word: error
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...widely considered a breach of democratic etiquette to question the collective wisdom of the electorate. To suggest that the voters are wrong, let alone to characterize their error in more melodramatic terms, opens you up to charges of elitism. The contention that people have been misled or manipulated, wrote one smug supporter of the probable winner shortly before the election, "reveals an extraordinary contempt for the political intelligence of the public...
...real insult to democracy, it seems to me, is to treat it as some sort of tennis game where victory is the definitive judgment on the players. And the real insult to the electorate is the patronizing attitude that it is a sort of lumbering collective beast, immune from error because it reaches its judgments through some mystical process that is beyond rational discourse, rather than an amalgam of individuals, each one fully capable of being right and being wrong...
Even its most-celebrated effect--crashing thousands of mainframes across the country--was apparently due to a programming error and was not Morris' intent...
...reporting error, several names in yesterday's sailing story were misspelled. The names should read: Liz Graham, Betsey Robinson, Caitlin Murray, George Eberstadt, Gordon Burnes and George Nathan...
Those tallies were higher than predicted for Dukakis. A poll of Harvard students conducted last week showed that 69 percent of undergraduates supported Dukakis, compared to 27 who backed Bush. The poll, conducted by The Crimson from November 3 to 6, had a 6 percent margin of error...