Being Wrong is not Simply the Opposite of Being Right

Jan Hoh
8 min readJun 10, 2021

There is only one way to be right, but there is no limit to how wrong you can be.

We form beliefs about the world around us, and those beliefs are, to varying degrees, true or false, right or wrong. It is common to think of being wrong about something as simply the opposite of being right. But “Wrongness” (W) is measured by

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Jan Hoh
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Science at the boundary of biology, chemistry, physics and engineering.