--- title: How to Get Human Error Out of Sports Officiating description: Getting humans out of sports officiating, why it's so important to confront our own hate and more. canonical: https://time.com/4372995/how-to-get-human-error-out-of-sports-officiating/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-17T16:00:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:52.389Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Get Human Error Out of Sports Officiating og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4372995/how-to-get-human-error-out-of-sports-officiating/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Get Human Error Out of Sports Officiating twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Get Human Error Out of Sports Officiating by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 17, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 17, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how to get human error — and maybe humans — out of sports officiating.**](http://www.si.com/tech-media/2016/06/14/mark-cuban-nfl-nba-officiating-replay) By Michael Rosenberg in Sports Illustrated **2\.** [**After Orlando: Why it’s important to confront our own hate.**](http://www.vox.com/2016/6/15/11946418/utah-orlando-shooting-lgbtq-spencer-cox-speech) By Emily Crockett in Vox **3\.** [**Elder abuse is happening in the U.S. We need better data to fight it.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/how-much-elder-abuse-occurs-united-states-we-dont-know-yet-were-getting-there) By Kamala Mallik-Kane at the Urban Institute **4\.** [**Don’t believe the hype. Startups are struggling, and American innovation will suffer.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601497/why-startups-are-struggling/) By James Surowiecki in the MIT Technology Review **5\.** [**Can on-demand book-printing save literary retail?**](http://www.citylab.com/navigator/2016/06/how-on-demand-printing-will-ensure-bookstores-remain-relevant/487052/) By Eillie Anzilotti in CityLab  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4372995/how-to-get-human-error-out-of-sports-officiating/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4372995/how-to-get-human-error-out-of-sports-officiating/"},"headline":"How to Get Human Error Out of Sports Officiating","datePublished":"2016-06-17T16:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:52.389Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4372995/how-to-get-human-error-out-of-sports-officiating/","keywords":["Innovation","Retail","Startups","NBA","Orlando","seniors"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4372995/how-to-get-human-error-out-of-sports-officiating/","name":"How to Get Human Error Out of Sports Officiating"}}]}] ```