Using the wrong numbers is often worse than no number at all!
"It sounds simple, but sometimes they'll put in the wrong numbers, or put all the numbers on the right hand side, " he explained.
Banamex, a big bank, has called your correspondent every day for two years because its call centre is unable to correct wrong numbers.
For they simply do not understand the words that the industry uses and thus they get wrong the numbers presented.
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DeArthur, she says, kept stalling, giving her fake or wrong tracking numbers.
This happens every year, the Business Software Alliance releases its figures on how much the theft of software costs the industry: and every year they get their numbers wrong.
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Despite its utility, System One is often wrong, especially if numbers are involved.
But everyone loses when the numbers are wrong -- even if the short-term result favors one political party over another.
This is an old paper so of course the numbers are wrong.
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Among the least-informed respondents, Democrats and Republicans picked the wrong answer in roughly equal numbers.
By the time they get them all parsed and pinned down, the numbers are often wrong.
He claimed the numbers quoted were wrong, and said the GPs should have waited to release the information.
Morality and ethics and what you think is right and wrong aside, this is a numbers game.
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If the numbers prove to be wrong, so be it, as long as the global rating agencies and key vote banks go away happy with this year's budget.
Firms listed on the bankruptcy-petition say numbers are either misleading or wrong.
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But Ms Cooper accused the government of "getting it wrong" on crime and insisted "police numbers do matter".
Mr. Slim disputes the OECD's numbers, saying its methodology is wrong.
New numbers suggest that Steve Jobs was definitely wrong to once think consumers would find smaller tablets useless.
Given that such outsiders are often paid based on the returns they report, and thus have a huge incentive to cook the books, I suspect that many of the numbers issued by public pension funds are wrong.
However, the numbers in the phase 3 studies ran in the wrong direction.
"So for the government to focus on taking arbitrary numbers of pupils off the SEN register is entirely the wrong starting point, " said Ms Hodgson.
When I told him I had already consulted the leading experts in the exact process he claimed to be using, and they said his numbers were nonsensical, Rivera simply told me the experts were wrong.
After last year's closure of the last venue for playing Two-Up in Broken Hill amid declining numbers of players, the council now wonders if it backed the wrong horse.
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The IRS wildly inflates its numbers and now it knows what it feels like to be on the wrong side of an audit.
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In More or Less this week, we examine the problem of spinning the numbers, talking to politicians, statisticians and the media about what goes wrong and how to put it right.
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It was because of assumptions in the department's own model about what would happen to inflation and passenger numbers - which in turn meant that the ready reckoner given to bidders was wrong.
The numbers are small because they are the small residual of calculations involving some other, extremely large, numbers, over long time periods, subject to assumptions which will almost certainly turn out to be wrong, in one direction or another.
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