That's a separate topic from error rate, which I still want help with, but also interesting.

Figuring out what procedure to perform is a kind of design task.

Designing includes:

-Defining goals and needs -Defining a space of alternatives -Searching a space of alternatives, hopefully with some big shortcuts -Possibly optimizing -Testing and iteration

Design is something that people fail at, over and over. They are successful enough of the time to build civilizations.

I feel that design is a fundamental element of quality and collective intelligence. I would love to sort through it in more detail.