Word: incorrectly
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...first hard data on the new "sequential lineup" that Minneapolis and three of its suburbs have been testing since late 2003. Rather than lining up suspects next to one another, Minnesota police have been showing them to eyewitnesses one by one. The report claims that sequential lineups have reduced incorrect identifications--which average between 20% and 25% in traditional lineups...
...Scott met with the Hasty Pudding president earlier last fall to discuss potential racial stereotyping. The Pudding writers were extremely receptive and considered all possible affronts, Scott says, from incorrect terminology to offensive costumes...
...have taken the good with the bad ... In the end, I have just one question: How come I'm canceled and bin Laden is still on al-Jazeera?" --BILL MAHER, ABC'S POLITICALLY INCORRECT...
...sadly, adequately explain our suggestion in that large and busy meeting, and we are not surprised that our idea was open to misinterpretation. But the implication that it came from the administration is incorrect. It derived, simply, from a shared concern for the Faculty about which we deeply care...
...having an intellectually-engaged president is that occasionally he will emit ideas that are politically offensive or, in some cases, just plain wrong. After all, as Karl Popper taught us, providing refutable hypotheses is at the very core of scientific progress. I would hesitate to count the number of incorrect hypotheses that I come up with in the course of a year. Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false hypotheses of our colleagues...