The phrase "a source of mistakes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person, situation, process, or anything else which could lead to mistakes being made. For example, "Poor communication between departments has been a source of mistakes that have caused repeated delays."
People are inherently a constant source of mistakes.
Hand-offs between doctors are an eternal source of mistakes that can cost patients their lives.
If you think VCs are just a source of money, you're sorely mistaken.
Yet Intuit's TurboTax has also found the credit to be the top source of mistakes this year.
Single variable approach is often used but is time and cost consuming, and may be the source of mistakes; multivariable approach allows to overcome these problems and increases the probability of global optimum finding.
Taking into account that the main source of mistakes are confusions between "Music" and "Speech over music," between "Speech over music" and "Speech over noise," as well as between "Speech" and "Speech over noise".
Rating agencies may disavow that purpose, but it has long since become a source of their prosperity.Whatever their mistakes, the rating agencies are unlikely to suffer.
A golden vein A brief history of Wi-Fi The road tolls for thee Going with the flow Unix's founding fathers ReprintsFiltering information in this way makes sense, says David Lewis, a psychologist who advises aircraft-makers on cockpit design, since trying to process too much information is a source of stress and can lead to mistakes.
This is a common mistake — and a source of friction for heirs — when property is left to children.
In the magazine this week, Seymour Hersh explores how the U.S. has, at various moments, both underestimated and overstated the cyber-security threat posed by China — and how neither mistake should be a source of comfort.
The game's title initially proved a source of some confusion; the gaming media reported that many gamers mistook the "X" for the roman numeral 10.
