Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experimental control chambers she piped continuous tones of either 5,000 or 12,000 cycles per second. Every week or two during their first eight weeks of growth, randomly selected seedlings were measured and weighed, and their roots, leaves and shoots counted. To decrease the chance error, the entire experiment was repeated ten times over a period of nearly two years...
...Viet Nam is afflicted with iatrogenic disease. This is a physician-induced condition, and arises when an inappropriate treatment, given perhaps for a misdiagnosed illness, is continued and even stubbornly escalated. Unless the error is appreciated, the treatment stopped and the therapeutic direction shifted, the patient ultimately dies. A physician can be sued for malpractice. Can Washington...
Your story of March 28 on the faculty committee to study the structure and procedures of the Administrative Board made a major factual error. The story said that I "did not anticipate that the committee would alter the Board's present policy of refusing a student legal counsel or the right to a personal hearing in front of the Board." I am positive I never said this. No experienced member of the faculty committees is likely to make the mistake of prejudging substantial issues. In fact, my view is that the questions of giving hearings to students and permitting them...
...bear on the problem even in those early periods, I think that many of these decisions could have been avoided, would have seemed less plausible even in the light of the expertise at that time and, of course, in terms of hindsight this is a process of really collective error, cumulative error, collective guilt by both parties, a long and tragic and deep involvement, and at each stage the error and the guilt is compounded...
...correct an obviously bona fide error of your reviewer of The Ghost in the Machine [March 1]? The term "schi-zophysiology," intended to indicate the mental condition of Homo sapiens, was not coined by me, but by Dr. Paul MacLean of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md. The speculative conclusions of the book are my own responsibility, but the neurophysiological evidence on which they are based is derived from the Papez-MacLean theory of emotions...