Critical Thinking

6 Conclusions and Recommendations

Resorting to the reasons and categorizing mistakes that resulted directly from the failure of the decision maker, Table 6.1 and Graph 6.1 indicate that over 80 percent of mistakes resulted from the failure of the decision maker to take some type of action.

The total number of mistakes was 33. A distribution attributed to each reason can be seen in Table 6.2 and Graph 6.1.

TABLE 6.1Reasons for Mistakes Attributable to Failures

Reasons for Mistakes	Percentage (%)	Number of Mistakes
Failure to consider all aspects of the project	36.4	12
Failure to ask others for assistance	27.3	9
Failure to consider all costs of the operation	18.2	6
Total failures	81.8	27

GRAPH 6.1 Reasons for mistakes attributable ...