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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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