Re: RE: Where is the Evidence?

[FVoehl@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/3/99 11:42:17 PM, qteam@guate.net wrote:

<<I don't have the data, but I bet that in the past, it was easier to make 
mistakes, than in the present. What does this tell us?>>

It is just as easy to make mistakes today as it was in the past.  Just ask 
the folks who were on the American Airlines flight #1420 which crashed on 
attempted landing Monday evening while flying into Little Rock, Arkansas.  
The piolt was responsible (he controlled the final decision) of deciding 
whether or not to land in a bad rainstorm.  He chose to land and at least 
nione people died, including the pilot who made the decision.  While it will 
take a year to sort out the reasons, the early evidence certaintly points to 
some form of pilot error concerning the safety of the landing conditions.

Back to Carlos' question:  What does this tell us?

Frank Voehl (FVoehl@aol.com)

[Moderator's Note:  It looks like we have out work cut out for us... we
keep seeing examples of anecdotal evidence (as above) which would lead
the reader to believe that a human decision is a totally *independent*
variable.  Perhaps the Lloyd Dobbins "School of Journalistic SoPK?"
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