A series of cartoons illustrate common folk models:
- A simple blunder breaks an otherwise safe system
- Ah ha, a culprit at last! Who is responsible?
- Failure is due to human error
- Solve the 'error problem' by substituting computers for people
- But all of these, while seemingly intuitive, are oversimplified or wrong - they represent fallacies about error
cartoon 1
cartoon 2
cartoon 3
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