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There's also an unexplained leap from "the calculations are correct" to "we should proceed as planned even though it's sagging when it shouldn't". Even if the
by mjw1007 7y ago
There's also an unexplained leap from "the calculations are correct" to "we should proceed as planned even though it's sagging when it shouldn't".
Even if the engineers were infinitely arrogant and assumed nothing could possibly be wrong with the design, you'd expect them to react by saying "you must be building it wrong or using substandard materials", or something.
- kerkeslager 7y agoThis is the same annoying problem I found with Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. He draws this conclusion that we can trust our first impressions, but it's really unclear how he comes to that conclusion: some of his evidence comes to no conclusion, and some of it directly contradicts that conclusion.
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- bryanrasmussen 7y agoI'm starting to think someone was misled by their expertise into thinking this article was any good.