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About the space shuttle o-ring disaster: what I feel being left out of the story is how often did previous warnings come up which turned out to be false? The s
by krisoft 4y ago
About the space shuttle o-ring disaster: what I feel being left out of the story is how often did previous warnings come up which turned out to be false?
The story as it is often told is that an engineer raised issue X, management dismissed it, issue X caused multiple deaths.
And when told like that it is obvious that management should not have ignored X. But what were the managements’ experience with warnings like that before?
Obviously they should have evaluated every warning on their merrits, but if the organisation was “crying wolf” all the time, one can imagine that can influence the decision making.
- sidewndr46 4y agoRead Richard Feynman's addendum on the Challenger disaster. It answers everything you want to know.