Comments on: Engineering design mistake

Question: Engineering design mistake

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:32:58 -0800

I can't find a Wikipedia page I saw a while back. It was about a sort of design error or cognitive bias whereby designers or engineers reject as irrelevant (or are unaware of) a relevant factor in the requirements of a design because it is outside of their field. It gave an example which was about designing and providing water supplies in Africa. There were known ways to prevent a certain disease in the water, but the engineers were not familiar with them, so the disease spread.

By: Logophiliac

Logophiliac — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:39:05 -0800

Relevance paradox?

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:51:57 -0800

7 minutes, not bad! :D

Thanks.

By: Logophiliac

Logophiliac — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:07:43 -0800

No worries.