"Sleeping with the fishes" is what a mobster says about someone they've killed. And in this exercise, we have some people who are proverbially fish-sleeping because they fataled. Let's look:
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PROBLEM: We spelled the researcher's last name as Grant, when in fact it was Gant.
SOLUTION: You know this one: double-check all spellings of any noun (person, place or thing), statistical unit and quotes to make sure what you wrote is correct. Unbelievably, FOUR people fataled on what we've repeatedly said was the most basic and fatal-prone info set in any story: the name,
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PROBLEM: Within a title we spelled psychology department as physiology department. Per the syllabus, this is a fatal (Inaccurate information, misspelling of a proper name, a misquotation or an error that changes the meaning of a story ... e.g., President Barack Obamma or Department of Transport).
SOLUTION: Same as above.
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PROBLEM: We spelled a last name as both Gant and Grant.
SOLUTION: A thorough proofreading would have revealed the dual spellings, one of which obviously has to be wrong since people only have one spelling for their last names.
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We know what to do, folks. We just need to do it. We need to check our basic facts, and we need to do it every time.
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PROBLEM: We spelled the researcher's last name as Grant, when in fact it was Gant.
SOLUTION: You know this one: double-check all spellings of any noun (person, place or thing), statistical unit and quotes to make sure what you wrote is correct. Unbelievably, FOUR people fataled on what we've repeatedly said was the most basic and fatal-prone info set in any story: the name,
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PROBLEM: Within a title we spelled psychology department as physiology department. Per the syllabus, this is a fatal (Inaccurate information, misspelling of a proper name, a misquotation or an error that changes the meaning of a story ... e.g., President Barack Obamma or Department of Transport).
SOLUTION: Same as above.
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PROBLEM: We spelled a last name as both Gant and Grant.
SOLUTION: A thorough proofreading would have revealed the dual spellings, one of which obviously has to be wrong since people only have one spelling for their last names.
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We know what to do, folks. We just need to do it. We need to check our basic facts, and we need to do it every time.
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