Yet, "when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
In his First Inaugural Address, Thomas Jefferson warned that those who wished to change our system of government should "stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it".
But it's the next, if admittedly more ornate, sentence that steals my breath: "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it".
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it".
The U.S. credo in these matters may well be found in Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address (1801), in which he said, "If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it".
The doctor's perspective was only an error of opinion.
After her death, however, Tynan revised his opinion, describing his earlier criticism as "one of the worst errors of judgment" he had ever made.
"Public opinion polls are scientific tools which should be used by newspapers to prevent editorial errors of judgment.
Boehner, who said earlier that the speech to a group affiliated with David Duke was an "error of judgement," repeated that opinion Wednesday, when questions about the third-ranking Republican in the House dominated the GOP's first news conference of the new Congress.
Ofqual said: "We also plan to overhaul the inquiries about results system in future, so that it can better distinguish between marking errors and differences of opinion between equally skilled professionals, particularly in those subjects where more subjective judgments of the quality of student work are necessary.
It explicitly excludes "honest error or difference of opinion".
