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  2. Muphry's law - Wikipedia

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    Stephen J. Dubner described learning of the existence of Muphry's law in the "Freakonomics" section of The New York Times in July 2008. He had accused The Economist of a typo in referring to Cornish pasties being on sale in Mexico, assuming that "pastries" had been intended and being familiar only with the word "pasties" with the meaning of nipple coverings.

  3. Corrective feedback - Wikipedia

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    Feedback can also be recorded as a score, such as a percentage, a letter grade, or an achievement level defined by a specific reference. Grades can be based on the teacher's overall impression of the work, but assessment based on explicit criteria is increasingly common. An example of such holistic assessment is a rubric. A typical rubric is a ...

  4. Corrective and preventive action - Wikipedia

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    A corrective action can also be a field correction, an action taken to correct problems with non-conforming products. [9] An example is the pharmaceutical company Avanos Medical , which in 2022 conducted a voluntary field correction after reports of 60 injuries and 23 patient deaths related to misplaced nasogastric feeding tubes while using ...

  5. Setting up to fail - Wikipedia

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    Setting up to fail is a well-established workplace bullying tactic. [6] [7] [8] One technique is to overload with work, while denying the victim the authority to handle it and over-interfering; [9] another is the withholding of the information necessary to succeed.

  6. Hypercorrection (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    A common example is the misconception that raindrops are tear-shaped. Understandably, many believe this because of depictions of such raindrops on weather channels. In the past few years, hypercorrection research has focused on the factors behind it and whether people of all ages exhibit this phenomenon.

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  8. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Put text in correct font wc/ww: word choice/wrong word: Incorrect or awkward word choice hr # Insert hair space: s/b: should be: Selection should be whatever edit follows this mark s/r: substitute/replace: Make the substitution tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected vf: verb form (Mostly used when translating) The version of the verb ...

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