The two studied cases highlight the effect of measurement chain errors on experimental data reliability: the greater is the overall variance of the objectives, the lower is the accuracy of the experimental data.
Officer Edwards, 25, shot by a fellow officer in what to all appearances was a chain of error and misperception, had a wife, two small sons, two parents and a large network of friends.
"We are talking here not about a one-off mistake but a whole chain of errors," he said.
By then, communications between the two militaries had sorted out the chain of errors and the shooting stopped.
By then, communications between the two militaries had sorted out a chain of errors and the shooting had stopped.
A "chain of errors" is the unsatisfying conclusion so far, with blame pinned on weak processes, "misconduct and shortcomings", and some overly-tolerant "mindsets".
Through a chain of errors, the Strategic Command and Control system automatically dispatches a squadron of nuclear-armed bombers to destroy Moscow.
That was not bad luck when Wojciech Szczesny went to punch a cross and crashed into his team-mate Kieran Gibbs in the chain of errors that led to United's opening goal.
"The incident involved exactly the same chain of errors as the CDC shipments of live anthrax bacteria in 2006 and 2014," Richard H Ebright, professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, told the Guardian in an email.
