<i>&quot;But as it turns out, the best predictor of a programmer’s ability to notice and correct an error is not good error-message text—it’s accurate and precise source locations.&quot;</i><p>I believe a part of this is training not to read the error message text, by years of error message text not worth reading.<p>I certainly wouldn&#x27;t go so far as to say that this accounts for all (or even most) of the effect, though.