Mr. Babbitt said it was not yet clear whether the blaze had resulted from human error, faulty technical guidelines -- meaning the government's own rules about how to carry out a prescribed burn -- or an unforeseeable act of nature.
The Gallup tracking poll is just one survey out of many, and, for whatever reason — sampling error, faulty weighting, an overly tight definition of "likely voter" — its findings might not be reliable.
One often cited statistic from a 1999 Harvard study puts the hazards of a hospital stay in chilling perspective: hospitals kill nearly 100,000 people a year because of human error, faulty techniques, malfunctioning equipment, wanton carelessness, oversights or assaults.
Press inquiries - which appeared to be the most extensive and intensive since Watergate - also are laying stress on the possibility of human error, faulty judgment and lax administration at NASA.
After twenty-five years of research, the Longs concluded that "a tragic sequence of events" — human error, faulty equipment, miscommunication — "doomed her flight from the beginning," and that Earhart and Noonan were forced to ditch in shark-infested waters close to Howland, where the plane sank or broke up.
Retailers can use AI to reduce losses resulting from error, faulty processes and intentional fraud.
Our investigation suggests that, (1) ignoring centre effects completely may cause substantial overestimation of the standard error, faulty increase of coverage of the confidence interval and reduction of power; and (2) mixed-effects models and GEE models, if employed appropriately, can produce accurate and precise effect estimates, regardless of the degree of clustering.
Examples of errors are faulty algorithms for dose calculation; wrong default dosing or route; user-interface facilitated errors; fragmentation errors due to faulty integration between applications; programming errors; as well as "false expectations" of clinicians who rely too whole-heartedly on the system's capabilities [ 13, 17, 19- 21].
They weren't errors of faulty logic or ineffective deliberation.
But it received much harsher treatment from writers in the technical press, who pointed out factual errors and faulty assumptions.
Appealingly, the pair tended to base their exploration of human foibles on their own errors: their faulty memories and dodgy mental shortcuts.
