When you have kids, it's very easy to be precisely wrong. If my daughter ever asks me to help her pick between two options, I somehow always pick the wrong one. Every time.
Now that I think of it, that example doesn't fit with your definition of being precisely wrong.
But this comment answers the wrong question perfectly, so it qualifies as precisely wrong in its own right.
I like how deep you went there without even looking around! I thought of a really good example from when I was learning to draw: you start by looking really close at (say) a nose, get all the little squiggles and details just right, and then you move on to the eye, and so on. Each part looks great if you're up close, but if you zoom out, the face just looks all wonky.
I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of these drawings from like age 11 or 12. It took me some time to "master" composition and stuff like that.
Do you find it's more about being in the wrong spot (EG, you're working on the wrong thing) or about imprecision (you hit the right target but missed the bullseye)?
When you have kids, it's very easy to be precisely wrong. If my daughter ever asks me to help her pick between two options, I somehow always pick the wrong one. Every time.
Now that I think of it, that example doesn't fit with your definition of being precisely wrong.
But this comment answers the wrong question perfectly, so it qualifies as precisely wrong in its own right.
So meta!
I like how deep you went there without even looking around! I thought of a really good example from when I was learning to draw: you start by looking really close at (say) a nose, get all the little squiggles and details just right, and then you move on to the eye, and so on. Each part looks great if you're up close, but if you zoom out, the face just looks all wonky.
I'm pretty sure I have a bunch of these drawings from like age 11 or 12. It took me some time to "master" composition and stuff like that.
My drawings look wonky no matter the angle or level of zoom!
Have you considered obsessing over drawing every night for about 8 years straight during your youth?
Ah, I knew I was doing something wrong here!
Work is all about other people telling you what you did right or wrong...
Do you find it's more about being in the wrong spot (EG, you're working on the wrong thing) or about imprecision (you hit the right target but missed the bullseye)?
It’s usually that I did it decent, but I could have done it better…
You were hitting the right target, but maybe a little outside of the bullseye! Or, you bowled down the right lane, and got like 7 pins instead of 10.
I may need to slow down with all the analogies!
Yes. A lot of my fiction short story rejection notes were like that.