Each in turn can be broken down into omissions, failure to prioritize, poor technique, misinterpretation of conditions, wrong response to conditions, and decision errors.

"The fact that he exercised his discretion in a number of ways against the defendants does not make those decisions error, even cumulatively," Professor Gillers said.

False alarms represent decision errors, which (assuming optimal processing) can only be reduced by gathering more information, which means taking more time, inevitably resulting in a reduced time-to-impact.

Exclusively using the corner symbols in rectangular constellations or giving them more weight versus lower SNR symbols reduces the impact of low SNR decision errors.

The posterior gives a universal sufficient statistic for detection applications, when one wants to choose values for the variable subset which minimize some expected loss function, for instance the probability of decision error.

Misuse of statistics can produce subtle, but serious errors in description and interpretation-subtle in the sense that even experienced professionals make such errors, and serious in the sense that they can lead to devastating decision errors.

Decision Errors: Errors which occur when the behaviors or actions of the operators proceed as intended yet the chosen plan proves inadequate to achieve the desired end-state and results in an unsafe situation (e.g. exceeded ability, rule-based error, inappropriate procedure).

One year later, a division of Bollettieri's academy released a document calling grunting "unsportsmanlike" and acknowledging that it obscures the sound of string impact (as noted by Navratilova), resulting in "an increase in an opponent's decision error, and a slower response time".