492 P&T® • September 2006 • Vol. 31 No. 9 The average “checking error rate” (errors missed on a check) is about 5%. In studies in which “artificial errors” were introduced into simulated pharmacy orders and medication carts, 93% to 97% of such mistakes were identified during an independent double-check.1–2 Thus, even with relatively small error rates, a significant number of mistakes can be ide...

In many phonological systems, sounds are classified by the action of articulators [1, 2, 3]. A reliable detection of formants and front cavity resonances over time should be capable of recognizing most of the linguistic information carried by the tongue and lips, including consonant place and vowel quality. But few speech recognizers use formant information because gross formant tracking mistak...

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Abstract Occurrences of sentences that are traditionally considered category mistakes, such as ‘The red number is divisible by three’, tend to elicit a sense oddness in assessors. In attempting explain this oddness, existing accounts the philosophical literature commonly claim occurrences associated with defect or phenomenology unique class mistakes. It might be thought recent work experimental...