Frank Schallmaier, photo editor of the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, collects photos of STOP signs that have spelling errors. He shared some of his favorites with the newspaper’s readers. (Thanks to Kees Moeliker for sopting to notice Schallmaier’s collection and bring it to our attention.)
“[…] we find that consumers actually prefer products that were made by mistake to otherwise identical products that were made intentionally.” – explain the researchers behind a new study to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research. The research team performed a series of experiments which described to participants various mistake-prone scenarios, e.g. one […]
Those involved in research projects often need to take measurements of some kind, and usually, the more accurate the better – leading to the question ‘Can any measurement ever be taken without some margin of error?’ As an example, see the work of Professor P R Evans, writing in the Wader Study Group Bulletin, (69, […]
Brett M. Error [pictured here] and Christopher Reid Error hold many patents. Here’s one: “Assigning value to elements contributing to business success,” Brett M. Error and Christopher Reid Error,US patent 7603373 B2, granted October 13, 2009. The patent document explains, patiently: “The present invention is related to tracking Website usage as it correlates With business success, […]
