Quotes About Error

He found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason.

There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.

In making predictions and judgments under uncertainty," they wrote, "people do not appear to follow the calculus of chance or the statistical theory of prediction. Instead, they rely on a limited number of heuristics which sometimes yield reasonable judgments and sometimes lead to severe and systematic error.

There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error.

What struck Redelmeier wasn't the idea that people made mistakes. Of course people made mistakes! What was so compelling is that the mistakes were predictable and systematic. They seemed ingrained in human nature.

Al realizar predicciones y juicios en condiciones de incertidumbre, la gente no parece seguir el cálculo de probabilidades ni la teoría estadística de la predicción. Más bien se basa en un limitado número de heurísticas que a veces dan lugar a juicios razonables y otras veces conducen a graves y sistemáticos errores.

A Schwalling is when he does something unintentionally idiotic that makes him look stupid

found a book called Human Error, by a British psychologist aptly named James Reason. "It

Baking was the carpentry of cooking, and I've always gravitated toward pursuits that leave considerably more room for error.

There is no sin but ignorance.

There are a few things that can be done only by experiencing them. Love is one of them. There is no way to learn it; you have to do it. And by trial and error one learns.

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

For the chief malady of man is restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

Truth on this side of the Pyrenees, error on the other.

Cea mai puternic? surs? de erori este r?zboiul între simÈ›uri È™i raÈ›iune.

I think that collectivization was an erroneous and unsuccessful measure and it was impossible to admit the error. To conceal the failure people had to be cured, by every means of terrorism, of the habit of thinking and judging for themselves, and forced to see what didn't exist, to assert the very opposite of what their eyes told them.

Puisque moi-même j'ai longtemps été un pensionnaire dans un asile d'aliénés, je ne peux que relever les tendances sophistes de certains pensionnaires qui les entraînent à se tromper en commettant les erreurs d'appliquer la non causa et ignoratio elenchi et qui consiste à mésestimer l'effet par ignorance de la cause.

Amazing how a little thing like that can cause a misunderstanding. Everyone makes mistakes, Marvin. Don't feel bad.

While trying to extricate his car from the collision, Mr. Piper reversed into a shop-window. When challenged, Mr. Piper said: "I thought it was all open country about here

It's amazing the stupid things I say sometimes. I mean, you could start an entire branch of scientific research about the stuff I say that gets proved wrong while I'm still busy saying it.

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