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We are conscious of very few of our errors. When people are confronted with their actual error rates, they are typically shocked.
Overconfidence is one of the main causes of spreadsheet errors. Being informed about overconfidence leads to more accurate spreadsheets.
Every study that has looked for errors has found them in considerable numbers. Spreadsheeting's childhood is over.
Spreadsheets can be considered to be the world's most successful end-user programming language. Spreadsheet formulas are Turing complete.
Only a quarter of survey participants were satisfied with their spreadsheet testing. Their techniques are largely manual and lack formalism.
Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve – a process called reification.
Errors in the data, formulas, or manipulation of spreadsheets could be costly, even devastating.
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