Re: Has bad mathematics lead to engineering disasters?

"Jesse F. Hughes" <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

"Richard Henry" <pomerado@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The engineers at Morton Thiokol, who built the solid rocket boosters
containing the infmaous o-rings, recommended against launch at cold
temperatures. They wer over-ruled by their management and NASA's
management.

I've seen the blame (for the exact scenario you describe) put at
the feet of the visualisation of the data. i.e. it was misleading
charts in the powerpoint slides that caused the management to hold
the views that they did. (A disease which the engineers were immune
to.)

I heard it was not enough animation. And the powerpoint sound effects
weren't in surround sound.

The powerpoints were _too_ persuasive, those 'improvements' would,
oh, yeah, I get it.

Phil
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