To help avoid casual errors, always double-check your work before publishing or sending. For spreadsheets always do some random “sanity checks” on your work by making sure columns and rows actually add up like they are intended to.
What can I say instead of double check?
What is another word for double-check?
| check | verify |
|---|---|
| make sure | reassure yourself |
| confirm | make certain |
| ascertain | establish |
| see | check out |
Is Double check correct?
Double-check is a hyphenated compound word, which is a term composed of two words joined together by a hyphen. Note that double-check is correctly rendered with a hyphen, though the term is also seen as two separate words, as in double check.
Why is double checking bad?
Repeated checking can cause you to lose confidence in your memory and even reduce its accuracy under certain circumstances: A paradox of memory research is that repeated checking results in a decrease in memory certainty, memory vividness and confidence [van den Hout, M. A., & Kindt, M. (2003a).
When to avoid the use of double checks?
Following are some common situations to avoid when considering a double-check for your process. Failure to design an independent double-check; one that only involves the person originating the work has a high likelihood of error due to confirmation bias, which can blind the person performing a check on his/her own work .
When is a double check the only course of action?
Where a double-check is the only course of action, either for the short term or for a longer time period, infuse these design principles:
When to double check a step in a process?
Often, a double-check step is inserted into a process “on the fly” without thoughtful planning to eliminate possible failure modes of the check itself. Following are some common situations to avoid when considering a double-check for your process.
What’s the presumption of a double check?
The presumption is that the person doing the double-check will also occasionally err, with probability B, but that the combined probability of error emanating from the double-checked task will be geometrically lower (improved).
