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Originally Posted by chantal68
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I would say not. Yes they made a mistake. Yes it was bad. However, remember that volunteers are humans too. I was working Einstein and worked with the person who made the mistake. The guilt they felt was tremendous and I can not imagine how sad/angry they felt because of their mistake. Comments attacking the person for an honest mistake in my opinion, is not appropriate. Any comments about the incident should focus on how we can seek to reduce the chance of human error by learning from the experience and creating safeguards (greater checking at all stages of score calculation), not from making someone feel worse about something they already feel horrible about.
From the Einstein field crew I extend apologies to the alliance because of the mistake, and I do not seek to make light of the situation, only to redirect criticism to the process, not to the person.
EDIT: Saw dcarr's comment about rechecking with calculators and such. Thanks for directing the remarks at the process not the person.