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Its not unusual to remove the top and bottom outliers

• deleted 8y ago
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• village-idiot 8y ago
  Not a good habit in rocketry.
  • zaarn 8y ago
    Even in rocketry, you just need to keep even more distance to the top and bottom of any ratings on any part than in normal engineering and put in a few redundancies in case it does fail.
  • ams6110 8y ago
    We continued to fly the shuttle even after it killed 14 astronauts. By measure of total astronauts killed, it was the worst spacecraft design in history. Though not sure how it ranks in deaths per flight.
    • village-idiot 8y ago
      A good argument to not ignoring that outlier.