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Therac-25? There are so many other examples, this comment is just wildly wrong. Trying things has some inherent risk of failure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not
by fossuser 6y ago
Therac-25? There are so many other examples, this comment is just wildly wrong.
Trying things has some inherent risk of failure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth working on hard problems. It just means you do the best you can to account for that risk (and learning from it to not make the same mistakes again).
Edit: You added the quote which I don’t disagree with in sentiment (I don’t know specifics of the policy in question).
- temp8964 6y agoIf you care about education reform, I guess you must have heard of the Common Core. In the field of education reform, almost nobody thinks a national standard is critical / essential to the education reform in the country. It created huge huge political turmoil for many years. Both left and right were against it, but it got pushed through. Now it is gone, nobody cares. Imagine the resource wasted on this meaningless effort which could have been used for something else.