Thus, on the score sheets where the creatinine score should have been doubled, this step was omitted on 64 of a possible 72 (89%) occasions, making omission of this step in practice the most frequent error seen.
Hain volunteered that he had made omissions in his declared donations to the Electoral Commission in the wake of the David Abrahams donor scandal last month.
While omissions may be morally equivalent to actions, this does not make omissions the same thing as actions, nor does it turn omission to harm into a benefit.
This second part is what makes omission paradigms particularly useful.
Concerning omission errors, there was a main effect of group, F 1, 38) = 15.67, p < 0.001, with patients making more omissions (i.e., failing to turn the counter over) than controls.
Making this omission all the stranger, Mrs. William Astor aka Carolyne Schermerhorn Astor, or "the" Mrs. Astor of the famous 400 of the Gilded Age, is on the list.
It was not possible to compare such rates between patients and controls in the present study because of so few control participants (n = 5) making any omission errors.
Also of interest is the number of 'successful omissions' made in the omission contingency condition (this variable is irrelevant for the yoked condition with the positive nosepoke contingency still intact), and the number of perseverative food panel nosepokes, as an indication of transference of behaviour from the now-irrelevant front panel to the relevant rear panel.
DLS lesion rats made more omissions than controls (p < 0.001) but no other significant differences between groups were observed in the number of omissions during the reversals and their retention (data not shown).
He said, however, that Thames Trains should have been aware of the risk and had made "serious omissions" in its driver training.
