Maybe she absolutely never had a doubt, even though she turned out to be wrong.
But you never know: all these economic predictions might just turn out to be wrong.
Ms Hughes said that local officials were responsible, but this turned out to be wrong.
It is more than unfortunate that if this was her judgment, it turned out to be wrong.
Rumsfeld turned out to be wrong about Hussein, but what if he had been talking about global warming?
Indeed, practically everything that was predicted about electronic commerce three years ago has turned out to be wrong.
And when our soft data turns out to be wrong, it can have disastrous consequences for our decision-making processes.
The initial premise of George Osborne's austerity programme turned out to be wrong.
All of these assumptions could turn out to be wrong, but probably not.
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He can point out that the doubters from previous conflicts, such as Kosovo and the Falklands, turned out to be wrong.
"The recent controversy with cot deaths has taught us that we should be aware of relying on science which may turn out to be wrong, " she says.
He said assurances he had sought through the cabinet secretary that the franchise process was being conducted properly had turned out to be wrong which was "not acceptable".
So long as you act in good faith and without discrimination, you can lawfully act on your best available information, even if it turns out to be wrong.
Even if Mr. Winzen turns out to be wrong by half, it would still represent a radical shift in personal mobility, a wholesale electrification of the world's rolling stock.
Estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organisation that the number of hungry people soared from 875m in 2005 to 1 billion in 2009 turned out to be wrong, and were quietly dropped.
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.
Much of what seems sensible, plausible, or certain turns out to be flat out wrong.
But as Dr Gonon has shown, 80% of the papers in the study turned out to be either wrong or questionable.
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In the last two days, I have made attempts to press shorts instead of adding to longs, which turned out to be the wrong approach.
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Analysts who took the negative news coverage at face value and predicted weakening results for the defense sector last year turned out to be dead wrong.
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Snow might have gone on in the laboratory had it not been for the premature publication in Nature of a piece of research into vitamins that turned out to be badly wrong.
It was one of those wonderful ideas that turned out to be horribly wrong: Since agriculture and drugmaking both relied on increasingly cutting-edge biotechnology, they would somehow fit together in the same companies.
Spike Lee fueled the flames by tweeting Zimmerman's home address, which turned out to be the wrong address and resulted in an older couple fleeing from their home and fearing for their lives after threats and crowds outside their residence.
Labour's lead is so large that, even if the opinion polls turn out to be as wrong as they were last time, and there is a late swing to the Tories, the Tories still look set to lose four seats, including those of Mr Forsyth and Malcolm Rifkind, the foreign secretary.
Sometimes she has had to puzzle out what might be wrong, asking another expert to describe what she heard as he played.
Life is messy: what looks right may be wrong, and what looks wrong may turn out to be, in the fullness of time, right.
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