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  • Illusions of Explanation: A Critical Essay on Error Classification

    Author(s)
    Dekker, SWA
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Dekker, Sidney
    Year published
    2003
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    Abstract
    Error classification methods are used throughout aviation to help understand and mitigate the causes of human error. However, many assumptions underlying error classification remain untested. For example, error is taken to mean different things, even within individual methods, and a close mapping is uncritically presumed between the quantity measured (errors)and the quality managed (safety). Further, error classifications can deepen investigative biases by merely relabeling error rather than explaining it. This article reviews such assumptions and proposes alternative solutions.Error classification methods are used throughout aviation to help understand and mitigate the causes of human error. However, many assumptions underlying error classification remain untested. For example, error is taken to mean different things, even within individual methods, and a close mapping is uncritically presumed between the quantity measured (errors)and the quality managed (safety). Further, error classifications can deepen investigative biases by merely relabeling error rather than explaining it. This article reviews such assumptions and proposes alternative solutions.
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    Journal Title
    International Journal of Aviation Psychology
    Volume
    13
    Issue
    2
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327108IJAP1302_01
    Subject
    Cognitive and computational psychology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/63135
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