root causes

CSGnet Archive CSG2001
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Rick,

You said:

  17 August 2001 9:20 PDT

"My sudden insight was this: when we see a person comit an error we can be sure
this happened because the person who comitted the error experienced _no error_
at all."

This may be true when a person is dealing with passive variables like pens and
papers. However, when an inexperienced driver spins out on a snow covered road
it is likely that they are experiencing a _lot_ of error, but don't have the
skills to correct for a skid.

best
  Bill Williams

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Rick,

I aggree. I occurs to me that the inexperienced driver's error may be very
large ( as an absolute value ) without the error having a sign. As a consequence
after falling behind the car's oscilations the driver may give up trying to
control-- but when the driver stops trying to control we can't assume that the
error has gone away.

best
  Bill Williams

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