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Re:Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design... by cratermoon on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:53PM (#27733834)
Don't forget the Challenger SRB failure. Flown outside of design criteria with known flaws. But each time the shuttle flew with and SRBs had burn through, it was taken to mean not that there was a problem, but that the behavior was "safe".
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Re:Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design... by dredmorbius on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:58AM (#27737468)
Normalisation of Deviance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

See Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents and The Next Disaster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrow

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Re:Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design... by cratermoon on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @01:26PM (#27751634)
That's the idea. The exact formulation of the term had slipped my mind.
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Re:Condo wreckage hints at less steel in columns than design... by dredmorbius on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:45PM (#27752685)
Right.

Knowing the extant nomenclature is useful in researching ideas / literature further. I'm often stymied because I don't know what things are called in certain domains. Psychology seems to be especially prone to this for me.

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