The blame game

The Blame Game

I propose a textual analysis-based measure to detect when corporate executives blame bad performance on external factors such as industry or the economy (BLAME measure). Using this methodology to analyze quarterly earnings announcement conference call transcripts, I find that: (1) executives are more likely to blame these external factors when their companies experience bad performance, but are...

Don't play the blame game.

Time to stop the blame game.

everyone makes mistakes – as the saying goes, ‘We’re only human’. While for most people, their mistakes do not come to the public’s attention, for those working in professions such as medicine and veterinary medicine, the consequences of an error can be severe, even fatal. Speaking at the BSAvA congress earlier this month, Catherine oxtoby, who has studied the causes and types of error in veter...

The blame game: performance analysis of speaker diarization system components

In this paper we discuss the performance analysis of a speaker diarization system similar to the system that was submitted by ICSI at the NIST RT06s evaluation benchmark. The analysis that is based on a series of oracle experiments, provides a good understanding of the performance of each system component on a test set of twelve conference meetings used in previous NIST benchmarks. Our analysis...

Ending the blame game key to overcoming medical error.

the first question asked when a medical error occurs, but international experts who gathered in Halifax in August say physicians must start asking better ones if they want to get useful answers. They say finger-pointing leads to secrecy and cover-ups, not to the solutions that could prevent future errors. Instead of trying to apportion blame, they advocate a “culture of openness” in which error...