ERRORS

1. many who begin to use "illogics," who have not drilled on them so they can rattle them off, choose errors instead of out-points." An error may show something else. It is nothing in itself. An error obscures or alters a datum. It will be found that out-points are really few unless the activity is very irrational. Simple errors on the other hand can be found in legions in any scene. That a factory has a few errors is no real indicator. A factory has plus-points to the degree it attains its ideal and fulfills its purpose. That some of its machinery needs repair might not even be an out-point. If the general machinery of the place is good for enough years to easily work off its replacement value there is a plus-point. People applying fixed or wrong ideals to a scene are only pointing up errors in their own ideals not those of the scene! A reformer who had a strict Dutch mother looks at a primitive Indian settlement and sees children playing in the mud and adults going around unclothed. He forces them to live cleanly and cuts off the sun by putting them in clothes-they lose their immunities required to live and die off. He missed the plus-point that these Indians had survived hundreds of years in this area that would kill a white man in a year! Thus errors are usually a comparison to one's personal ideals. Out-points compare to the ideal for that particular scene. (HCO PL 23 May 70) 2. minor unintentional omissions or mistakes. These are auditing "goofs;" minor alter-is of tech or policy; small instructional mistakes; minor errors or omissions in performing duties and admin errors not resulting in financial loss or loss of status or repute for a senior. (HCO PL 7 Mar 65 III) Errors