Effective Communication: Principles for Any Context
Clear communication depends on audience understanding and delivering focused information that meets the listeners' needs.
What was corrected
The article stated a 2004 Boeing 737 LAX emergency landing, a 1995 study showing CRM crews made 27% fewer errors, an NTSB attribution of falling aviation fatalities to CRM, that Helmreich and Foushee designed United's 1981 program, a 2009 Pronovost surgical checklist study saving 1,500 lives and $175M across 103 hospitals, that Klare's research was at the University of Wisconsin, and a Boomerang 2016 study of 5.3 million emails with grade 3-5 emails getting responses 53% more often, controlling for familiarity and length.
Removed or generalized the unverifiable anecdote and unsourced statistics; qualified overstated single-cause attributions; corrected attributions and affiliations to what the primary record supports (Michigan Keystone 2006 multicomponent central-line project; Klare at Ohio University; Boomerang as a non-peer-reviewed company blog analysis reporting a relative response-rate difference).
Why this is better
Several claims carried precise figures with no locatable primary source or mis-stated the source's design and scope. Policy is to remove unverified specifics, qualify single-cause claims, and correct attributions rather than substitute new unverified sources.
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