improve `check_outcome()` error message

[simonpcouch]

it would be awesome if we could have messages that list what the wrong input was. Like the outcome should be a factor, but was a "numeric"

Originally posted by @EmilHvitfeldt in #883 (comment)

[simonpcouch]

Possibly related to #545.

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