Paid To Be Wrong vs. Paid to be Right

For today's Nate Note, I'm considering various occupations and various tolerances for "rightness" and "wrongness".  My primary question is, in what professions can you be wrong and still keep your job?

What does it mean to be "Wrong"?

You ask me to call a coin flip. I recommend heads. It ends up tails. Was I wrong?

• What if I say that there's a 50% chance you will get heads ?
• What if I just said, it was likely that you'd get heads?
• Or stated more strongly - you will get heads....as long as the coin's starting position, number of revolutions, and landing point align in the appropriate way.

Caveats, ranges, and declaring something as an estimate are great ways to avoid being right and avoid being wrong at the same time. The thing is, this will work for some professions better than others.

What Happens if you are Wrong at your Job?

Actuary: 

1. Nothing of any consequence, just another day in the life of modeling probablistic events or
2. A Billion Dollar Hedge Fund goes under
3. You have to raise rates on your LTC policies,
4. The pension goes underfunded, among other things. (Although chances are the actuary was right all along, but management didn't listen)

Actuarial Judgment in a Flask by Actuary2Actuary

Weatherman:  

I end up wearing shorts in a snowstorm.

Refs/Umpires: 

Sports fans get verrrrry angry.

Clergy: 

Do we really know? Ask Blaise Pascal about it.

Economists:

They get book deals.

For more occupation mishaps, please consider You Had One Job.