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peepeepoopoo112
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peepeepoopoo112
2y ago
Because the proper way to quantify it is to represent it as a distribution. Right now a bunch of highly approximated heuristics, like factor of safety, are used in place of proper statistical practice. We would have much safer and higher
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peepeepoopoo112
2y ago
It's because most mechanical engineering curricula, and as a consequence most mechanical engineers, overwhelmingly treat empirical distributions as point estimates. It's a bad habit that we inherited from classical physics, where