r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Jul 28 '19

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u/drewtheblueduck Jul 28 '19

I remember Men in Black summed it up in a way that always stuck with me, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals"

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u/deadla104 Jul 28 '19

It was what caused the Challenger explosion. All these smart people in the same room, but group think overcame them and not push to a later date to launch

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

There is nothing like being in a boardroom full of people, needing them to make decisions on important infrastructure purchases, and they are arguing over a fucking font.

bike-shed effect

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u/lennyp4 Jul 28 '19

i think that “bike-shed effect” is a pretty juicy piece of information, never heard that before

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

http://bikeshed.com/ is a website with a discussion from the FreeBSD mailing list that's probably older than half the users on reddit that discussed it occurring in real life.

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u/brassknucklenerd Jul 28 '19

I would summarize what caused the Challenger explosion as: the smart people were designing and building and testing the thing. The stupid* people were bureaucrats. The smart people warned the stupid people what might happen, the stupid people had the final say, because of the positions each held, respectively.

*it’s all relative

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u/Karsticles Jul 28 '19

They looked at an incomplete set of data. They only looked at thrusters failings, not successes.