Definitions
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- adjective In the habit of making
errors
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- adjective capable of making an error
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Examples
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The amount of information needed is huge: both the data and the models are incomplete and error-prone.
Initial value vs. boundary value problems | Serendipity 2010
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Also, if the media makes a big enough stink about it (error-prone as their analysis might be), people will sit up and take notice.
Supply-side Dissatisfaction, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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When constructions fall outside this ‘brain logic’, as you nicely put it, it may be more error-prone.
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But multiplication or division is a tedious, error-prone process of repeated addition or subtraction.
Counting On Progress Alan Hirshfeld 2011
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Yet here, the prison engaged instead in the error-prone, multifaceted decision to treat mental illness and did so in a truncated, nonadversarial setting when it decided to forcibly medicate Mr. Loughner on the ostensible grounds of addressing dangerousness, Loughner's lawyers wrote.
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If drivers become less error-prone over the course of a career, it is as a result of experience, not as a result of being victimised by punitive administrators.
Archive 2009-03-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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And the stat block is kinda messy and error-prone.
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The imposition of ex ante limits on computer warrants is also harmful: Ex ante assessments of reasonableness in ex parte proceedings are highly error-prone, and they end up prohibiting reasonable practices when paired with ex post review.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New Article, “Ex Ante Regulation of Computer Search and Seizure” 2010
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The problem is that proper use is complicated and error-prone, so you should only use it if you are absolutly confident in your knowledge and attention.
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Yet here, the prison engaged instead in the error-prone, multifaceted decision to treat mental illness and did so in a truncated, nonadversarial setting when it decided to forcibly medicate Mr. Loughner on the ostensible grounds of addressing dangerousness, Loughner's lawyers wrote.
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