We are conscious of very few of our errors. When people are confronted with their actual error rates, they are typically shocked.
Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve – a process called reification.
Spreadsheets can be considered to be the world's most successful end-user programming language. Spreadsheet formulas are Turing complete.
Creating a slow spreadsheet is easy. Creating an efficient spreadsheet requires more thought and application of specific techniques.
60% of large companies feel 'Spreadsheet Hell' describes their reliance on spreadsheets either completely or fairly well.
The cascading structure of typical spreadsheet formulae means that just about every spreadsheet is almost certainly wrong.
Only a quarter of survey participants were satisfied with their spreadsheet testing. Their techniques are largely manual and lack formalism.
Every study that has looked for errors has found them in considerable numbers. Spreadsheeting's childhood is over.
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