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The exit you only recognize from the rearview, usually mid-apology.

means Not correct, just, or appropriateout of line with fact, morality, or what was intended.

from From Old English 'wrang,' meaning crooked or twisted, borrowed from Old Norse 'rangr' (awry, unjust). The root idea is physical: something bent out of true. It's a cousin of 'wring' and 'wrench' — the sense of twisting carried over into the moral world, so that to be 'wrong' is, quite literally, to be bent away from the straight.

Brain biasConfidence peaks exactly when knowledge bottoms out
EtymologyFrom Old Norse rangr, meaning crooked or twisted
Physics twistNewton was wrong about gravity, yet bridges stand
Survival edgeBeing wrong fast beats being right too late
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