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Steven G. Vick
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“Of course, there are no rules for specifying what looks good or even any way to define it. The intuitive nature of this task was illustrated by one engineer's remark: "When you ask me how I did this I will say 'I don't know.”
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“The days when engineers had exclusive authority over engineering decisions are long gone.”
― Degrees of Belief: Subjective Probability and Engineering Judgment
― Degrees of Belief: Subjective Probability and Engineering Judgment
“If anything they did the opposite by inhibiting the development of expertise needed to know when to confirm to prescriptive procedures and when to go beyond them. In this, procedural rules seek to transfer judgement by codifying it. This may work some of the time, but it cannot work all of the time because judgement is not procedural. There can be no substitute for judgement, and as well no escaping that the expert has it but the novice does not.”
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