The Challenger Launch Decision¶
Vaughan, D. (2016). The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. University of Chicago Press.
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Mechanisms¶
- Safe Operating Limit Chart
- The classic misuse is widening the warning bands to quiet nuisance alarms until the yellow zone is effectively gone — a normalization of deviance that removes the very lead time the chart exists to provide.
This sourceShows how repeated evidence of abnormality can be normalized until the deviance becomes acceptable.
- The classic misuse is widening the warning bands to quiet nuisance alarms until the yellow zone is effectively gone — a normalization of deviance that removes the very lead time the chart exists to provide.
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