Reason, Emotion, and Human Error

Best, William P.

Your author was blessed with the most thoughtful and loving child care imaginable and educated by well-qualified teachers in excellent schools, so whatever are his deficits, his background doesn't account for them. He practiced an unlikely combination of professions: chemical engineering and educational psychology, before retiring, making many incredibly stupid mistakes along the way, but obediently learning important lessons therefrom, as his father had advised him always to do. So he is eminently well qualified as an expert on human error, bringing as he does the experience of a lifetime of major blunders in addition to scholarship to his work.