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In the end, human errors are not tolerable. That doesn't mean they
don't occur... it just means they are supposed to get fixed before
you publish your paper. Having said that, I liked John Denker's
response that students are sometimes in situations where they don't
have the opportunity or time to fix human errors. I agree with that.
Of course, if you ask my students, especially near the end of the
term, they don't have time even to do the lab once, let alone repeat
it.
A statement I often repeat to the students goes like this. If you
determine it is a problem that you are only making measurements to
the nearest millimeter and you need measurements to the nearest
tenth-millimeter... you don't need a different human... you need a
different instrument.