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Its not so much that the errors were small and likely didn't change the outcome of the report. Its that the errors existed in the first place. If they screw u

by Corrado 16y ago

Its not so much that the errors were small and likely didn't change the outcome of the report. Its that the errors existed in the first place. If they screw up the details, how much confidence can we have in the rest of the report?

thaumaturgy 16y ago
No kidding. I once knew a programmer that had an off-by-one error in a loop. I thought he should be fired immediately. I mean, it's not so much that the error existed in the first place, it's that if he screws up details like that, how much confidence could we have in the rest of his code?
- cantastoria 16y ago
  Were the results of your friends code going to be used to set global energy and environmental policy?
- temphn 16y ago
  Were the coworkers who thought there might be bugs in his code called "deniers" and accused of being funded by outside interests? And did he stonewall their efforts to look at the source code? because then you might have a closer analogy.
anigbrowl 16y ago
I notice that your sentences Its not so much... and Its that the errors existed... are both missing apostrophes in the very first word...but that has nothing to do with the substance of your post, does it? I draw a parallel with your tiny grammatical error because the mistake about sea level in the Netherlands was introduced by the editing process when an early draft of the report was being condensed down to a shorter version. This is categorically different from an error in the statistical methodology or logical reasoning.
- Corrado 16y ago
  Yes, in a way it does affect the substance of my post. If a person (myself included) cannot form a complete sentence and do so in a grammatically correct manner then I tend to take that person less seriously. For example, the run-of-the-mill Internet posting looks like this: "Yo! dAwG - ?sUP" Would you take anything this person has to say seriously? I merely expect that when "experts" communicate something that impacts a large portion of the world population, that they make damn sure of their "facts". All of them! BTW: I never claimed to be a grammar expert. :)

by Corrado 16y ago

thaumaturgy 16y ago

No kidding. I once knew a programmer that had an off-by-one error in a loop. I thought he should be fired immediately. I mean, it's not so much that the error existed in the first place, it's that if he screws up details like that, how much confidence could we have in the rest of his code?

cantastoria 16y ago
Were the results of your friends code going to be used to set global energy and environmental policy?
temphn 16y ago
Were the coworkers who thought there might be bugs in his code called "deniers" and accused of being funded by outside interests? And did he stonewall their efforts to look at the source code? because then you might have a closer analogy.

anigbrowl 16y ago

I notice that your sentences Its not so much... and Its that the errors existed... are both missing apostrophes in the very first word...but that has nothing to do with the substance of your post, does it? I draw a parallel with your tiny grammatical error because the mistake about sea level in the Netherlands was introduced by the editing process when an early draft of the report was being condensed down to a shorter version. This is categorically different from an error in the statistical methodology or logical reasoning.

Corrado 16y ago
Yes, in a way it does affect the substance of my post. If a person (myself included) cannot form a complete sentence and do so in a grammatically correct manner then I tend to take that person less seriously. For example, the run-of-the-mill Internet posting looks like this: "Yo! dAwG - ?sUP" Would you take anything this person has to say seriously? I merely expect that when "experts" communicate something that impacts a large portion of the world population, that they make damn sure of their "facts". All of them! BTW: I never claimed to be a grammar expert. :)