Noise is a pervasive source of errors. Wherever human judgment exists, you’ll find it. Unlike bias, however, it is largely invisible. Two felons who should be sentenced to six years for identical ...

Lively discussions have sprung up here in editor Aalyia Shaukat’s Design Ideas regarding the limitations and quirks of, and design tricks for, the current control topologies shown in Figure 1. Figure ...

Network outages can often be traced to four error-prone activities: fault analysis and response, configuration changes, scaling and failover, and security policies. You might have been alarmed to read ...

Don�t heap all the blame for a wrong measurement on the DMM. There can be several less obvious sources of the errors. Testing assemblies and components usually includes checking the continuity of ...

Conducting a poll isn’t an exact science. The process is susceptible to lots of common problems and baked-in biases — more than just the “margin of error.” By ...

With the usage of micropipettes in the life science laboratory, various pipette and pipetting errors have been linked. Users familiar with such micropipette issues can assist users to reduce further ...

Scientists have achieved the lowest quantum computing error rate ever recorded — an important step in solving the fundamental challenges on the way to practical ...

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