A Note On The Importance Of Making Simple Mistakes

The truth about mistakes is that they’re a part of life. We can’t avoid faults but we can look back at them too prevent ourselves from doing the same mistakes, again. Sometimes, many will look back and realize that their mistake caused more good than bad. They’ll realize that maybe their mistake isn’t really a mistake, and they’ll become proud of what they have done. I’m one of those people because I have struggled to convince myself that what I did was right. After a giving a lot of thought, I finally came to the conclusion, that making my dad choose between us and alcohol, is and will always be my favorite mistake. Sometimes I wonder if I could’ve done things differently and, other times I wonder whether or not I’m satisfied with the results, but I have yet to tell myself again, that what I did was wrong.

but still resulting in a valid x. The x = z verification in the tag would be successful even though

After running this program, an error message appeared when the number of people became zero. The computer did not accept the division when the number of cookies was divided by zero (min=0).

A important aspect in the book Mistakes were made (but not by me) is the pyramid of choice. The pyramid of choice would be defined as the process of making a decision when both choices have no clear advantages on either side. In the beginning, the choices that are present only seem a “millimeter apart.” Once a side is chosen however, the person will feel urgency to self-justify their decision. A trend of “entrapment” is created, which is the constant self-justification of an unclear choice made, making both sides of a decision miles apart. The authors of Mistakes were Made (but not by me), Tavris and Aronson, did prove the existence of such a pyramid when they gave multiple examples of entrapment throughout the text. One example of someone

Yes, we can fix the error if we change the value in the cells that are referred in the formula. Let me explain this by an example: (let me explain one particular error)

The "naming, blaming, and shaming" approach to dealing with errors has hindered medical error reduction, yet it is the most commonly used approach to addressing errors in health care (koop,1999).

In the testing area the code is tested and if there’re are problems then they are re-developed.

System testing will help identify if normal or incorrect actions in the program are working correctly because every line of the program code should be able to execute test errors messages.

After reading brief, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, I did a little research and happened to find an article from April 2015 that talked about To Err is Human. This article discussed several topics but one that stood out was that a few analysis claim that To Err is Human counted too few errors. Yes, too few. The studies performed for To Err is Human were based on what was written on medical errors. Some doctors often leave off mistakes in medical records, which would have lead to a lesser amount of errors reported. Towards the end of the article it discusses how hard it is to know on a broad scale whether things are getting better, which goes along with the issue as to whether or not conditions have improved as a result of,

One of these errors is that the fire is unpredictable it will burn the paper if you are not paying attention this in turn makes it hard to get a paper where you do not have a burn mark. Another error is with the lemon juice when you start writing it stays nice but by the end all the lemon juice dried off making less likley to show up

There are several ways to avoid making errors on any job. You should always be focused on the task at hand. Focusing on solely what you are doing at that time helps you to concentrate and be fully aware of what you are doing. Calculating numbers correctly can always be done a second time to ensure you get the same answer. As well as have someone double check that way you have that security knowing you were correct. Double checking along with paying attention and focusing on the task you are accomplishing can help eliminate errors and the results that may be the outcome of that error.

Teachers sometimes teach things based on correct or incorrect basis to cover the curriculum quickly instead of switching places with their students momentarily to understand the reasoning behind their misconceptions that caused their wrong answer in the first place. In “The Importance of Getting Things Wrong by Anya Kamenetz”, she argues using quotes from Philip Sadler, professor of astronomy and the director of the science education department at Harvard University, that “if you don’t understand the flaws in students’ reasoning you’re not going to be able to dislodge their misconceptions and replace them with correct concepts”. A more Socratic teaching style would both benefit teachers and students by allowing teachers to destroy any lasting

This is more properly classified as a requirements error rather than a programming error. The program was written against Ariane 4 requirements; these requirements were not transferred to the Ariane 5 requirements spec; the Ariane 5 requirements therefore did not state the range requirement; the (implicit in Ariane 5) range requirement was in conflict with the behavior of Ariane 5 (as in fact explicated in other Ariane 5 requirements); requirements came up against behavior and the rocket was destroyed. (It is not surprising that it was a requirements error - over 90% of safety-critical systems failures are requirements errors, according to a JPL study that has become folklore, as well as Knight-Leveson, I believe.)

Write a discussion of error summarizing 2 sources of error, why are your results and the other group different?

The tutor uses the grey box with the red outline to mark faults  and will write marks and comments in the grey fields below the exercise