{"id":4740,"date":"2011-04-26T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4740"},"modified":"2011-05-23T02:25:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:25:29","slug":"accidental-curve-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=4740","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Curve Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early on Saturday morning, I submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.praxiologic.com\/economics\/papers\/CoinFlip.pdf\">my paper<\/a> to yet another journal.  Alas, on Sunday, I discovered a typographical error in one of the formul&aelig;.<\/p> <p>The formula should read <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/equation_right.png\" alt=\"R = {X_1,X_2,...}^2 \\ {(X_1, X_2) s.t. [(X_1 WP X_2) v (X_2 WP X_1)]}\" width=\"450\" height=\"22\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> But instead it read <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/equation_wrong.png\" alt=\"R = {X_1,X_2,...}^2 \\ {(X_1, X_2) v. [(X_1 WP X_2) v (X_2 WP X_1)]}\" width=\"450\" height=\"21\" style=\"border: 0 ; display: block ; margin-top: 1em ; margin-bottom: 1em ; margin-left: auto ; margin-right: auto ;\" \/> That's because I <em>had<\/em> been using a vertical bar for <q>such that<\/q>, intended to replace it with a backwards epsilon (to be consistent), but got lost or distracted and instead dropped-in a second disjunction sign.<\/p> <p>Perhaps I should contact the editors, but this formula  simply appears in an incidental remark.  I can correct things if the paper is accepted, and I will just hope that no reviewer is so offended as to reject the paper based on the error.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">&#91;<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps ;\">Up-Date<\/span><\/span> (2011:05\/23)<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">:<\/span> I've been sufficiently perturbed about this matter that I decided that, were the paper not bounced-back to me before it had been in their hands for a month, I would send them a note, with a link to a correction. (The idea in waiting a month was to <em>ration<\/em> any pestering of the editors.) I did so a few minutes ago.<span style=\"font-weight: bolder ;\">&#93;<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early on Saturday morning, I submitted my paper to yet another journal. Alas, on Sunday, I discovered a typographical error in one of the formul&aelig;. The formula should read But instead it read That's because I had been using a vertical bar for such that, intended to replace it with a backwards epsilon (to be [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,5,4],"tags":[445,446],"class_list":["post-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-personal","category-public","tag-papers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}