When was the last time you admitted to being wrong?

When my student corrected me and said that the Tuskegee syphillis study was done in mid-to late 1900s rather than early 1900s. Wasn’t hard for me, but I was a bit embarrassed.

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
—Alexander Pope

I was involved in a long discussion about Aristotle’s Metaphysics yesterday. By the end of it, we were all convinced that we’d all been wrong about it. We weren’t sure what was right, either—but such is life.

When I see I am wrong I admit it. But only when others tell me I’m wrong but I’m not i continue to debate/argue/contradict.

Today.
I thought that the table on a grinder only needed to be parallel with the floor when it needs to be perpendicular and true to it’s axis’.
Are you sleeping yet? XD
It was not hard.I value correct information.

Probably yesterday. I admit it all the time. My MIL once said something that I thought was just great. We were talking about how our husband hate to be wrong and she said, “I told my husband it’s ok to be wrong, sometimes I am so glad I was mistaken.”

Does apologizing mean you are wrong? If so, then yesterday. I haven’t apologized yet today, but there’s still plenty of time left.

If I ever were to make a mistake, I’m sure I would admit it.

I say that I’m wrong whenever I am, which is fairly often.

I’ll be honest, it’s hard for me to admit when I’m wrong, especially with my mother. Sometimes I will continue to argue my side of things even if I know I am wrong. I think part of the reason this is is because I am often accused of being wrong when I’m not. With most other people I have no problem with being wrong. If I’m wrong I’ll admit it. The last time I admitted to being wrong? I don’t remember. Maybe two weeks ago, but I don’t remember what about.

I think the most recent time was in pointing out to an Ayn Rand fan some whacky shit she had said. They said it was a mischaracterization of her opinions, I said it was a paraphrase from an interview. Turned out I was wrong: it was from her diaries.

In general I just try not to act like I know what I’m talking about unless I actually do, and that keeps me from being wrong about stuff too often. But hey, if some information is wrong, it only makes sense to incorporate the new information and reevaluate the argument based on that.

Yes I do still argue even if I know I might be wrong. I am such a stubborn person. The last time I admitted I was wrong was a few weeks back.

A few months ago in a miscommunication with my daughter.

Yep, being able to admit you’re wrong or made a mistake is paramount to emotional maturity.
At best if someone is unable to apologize quickly and easily, or, admit an error, they are immature.

At worst, they are character /personality disordered types and defending their ego and false self will always take precedence over humility.
The refusal of accountability IS the definition of “evil’

When I blamed the kids for doing something that they didn’t do.

I apologized as soon as I found out.

Apologizing is something that is not too hard for me. It stings but I’d rather have that feeling than stubbornly stick to my erroneous stance.

This is a regular occurrence for me as it’s not unusual for me to be wrong. If I’m wrong, I’ll say so and seek out the correct information.

I’ll admit to something right now.
I was wrong on this answer to a question about the media blowing a hurricane out of preportion.
In California, our building codes are designed to deal with Earthquakes, and when there is a small one, say under 6, usually there is no damage.
I have watched Category 1 hurricanes hit Florida, and do very little damage.
It did not occur to me that New York would suffer, because of drainage issues and buildings not designed to withstand something that doesn’t cause much trouble in Florida.
My response was unthinking, and I apologize.

It was today. And I’m not going to say what it was about, but I was incredibly happy to find out that I was wrong.
However, I don’t think that I am one of those people that has a hard time admitting when I’m wrong. It’s kind of tricky to realistically evaluate yourself for something like that, but I am pretty sure that I try to be reasonable. I’m okay with admitting that I’m wrong, and I don’t find it difficult to say I’m sorry.

Hummmmmmmmmmmm, 2007

I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.

Today. Though, it was in reference to a joke, which I never intended to be right in the first place. Aside from that, I don’t remember, I know it was recent, it just was unimportant.

I just remembered, it had to do with homework.

Yesterday, when I thought one of my young children accidentally left the front door of our house unlocked. I questioned the girls, and then “realized” that it was ME who came home from work and left it unlocked. Ergg….

I’m wrong pretty frequently (particularly if I’m relying on my oh-so-crappy memory), so I’m used to admitting it when I am. I’m also a frequent apologizer. So much so that my husband told me to stop apologizing when I’ve done nothing wrong, and I said I was sorry I was apologizing so much!

@Simone_De_Beauvoir A math teacher I had in high school had a rule that if a student noticed an error on the board, he’d write a check mark in the upper left corner. If we got to a certain number, we didn’t have to do our homework or had a party or something. No one has ever paid closer attention to the blackboard during math than in that class! I learned so much Algebra!

Get over yourself. Let it be life lesson and learn from it. Stop worrying what other will say or think and be a teacher. Show that person you are human and make mistakes and now I am better person because of it.