SELF-CORRECTING | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of self-correcting in English

(Definition of self-correcting from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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self-correcting
The democratic nature of the subsequent regime enabled self-correcting mechanisms to improve imperfect state institutions, though not dramatically, subsequent to the transitional period.
The trade-off is that this also leaves researchers with no uniform scientific standard at all, which is the essential self-correcting engine of scientific activity.
By relying on null-hypothesis significance testing procedures to evaluate research findings, however, psychology deprived itself of the essential self-correcting engine of scientific method.
This is the most important of the three issues because sound justification standards provide the indispensable self-correcting feedback for shaping and insuring the integrity of creativity in the discovery process.
These follies tend to be self-correcting, and even the natural sciences are not immune.
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That is a self-correcting mechanism for which we should allow flexibility in the future.
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The answer must be that it would be self-correcting only at a level that involved a considerable recession.
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He then said that he expected the deficit to be self-correcting.
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It is a second-grade problem, self-correcting, he tells us, but it is a problem big enough now for him to seek to doctor the statistics.
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It said that the position was not self-correcting and would not come right on its own.
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Over a period, the effects may be self-correcting.
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So it is nonsense to say that a balance of payments deficit of this size is self-correcting.
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We are not faced with a situation which is self-correcting.
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He said that it was not of incidental importance, self-correcting, or easily financed.
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It is thus a method of correcting unfairness in the budget but it is also a self-correcting mechanism.
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