Imagine if that something was a relatively minor infraction due to a error in judgement.

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It is not like people have not tried this type of scheme before, so there were lessons that Skowron could have learned from to prevent this error in judgement.

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Some observers have wondered whether the two generals were guilty of an error of judgement in getting involved in the case at all.

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The UKFPO announced on Tuesday that it had discovered "a potential error in the scanning process of the situational judgement test" and promised to manually re-mark all the affected sheets within a week.

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