Re:The importance of clear design
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The Challenger
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You may wish to look at "Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton Thiokol Engineers on the Challenger" by Wade Robison, Roger Boisjoly, David Hoeker, and Stefan Young. It makes quite a few valid and interesting points about Tufte's judgement. Some of the most important of which are that, blow-by and not O-ring damage was what the engineers should have, and did focus on, the engineers did not have access to all of the launch temperatures at the time, let alone the temperatures of the O-rings themselves, and that Tufte in his own words does not "quite know what [he] is doing, and [is] doing a lot of it".
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You may wish to look at "Representation and Misrepresentation: Tufte and the Morton Thiokol Engineers on the Challenger" by Wade Robison, Roger Boisjoly, David Hoeker, and Stefan Young. It makes quite a few valid and interesting points about Tufte's judgement. Some of the most important of which are that, blow-by and not O-ring damage was what the engineers should have, and did focus on, the engineers did not have access to all of the launch temperatures at the time, let alone the temperatures of the O-rings themselves, and that Tufte in his own words does not "quite know what [he] is doing, and [is] doing a lot of it".