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Re: Trackline Attachment Syndrome - Frances Wright's perspective
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2015 Feb 16, 01:18 -0500
From: Henry Halboth
Date: 2015 Feb 16, 01:18 -0500
It might be well to add "situational awareness" to the list of atributes.
hch
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Paul Saffo <NoReply_PaulSaffo@fer3.com> wrote:
Anyone who was a student in Francis Wright's Navigation class at Harvard (Astro 99 when I took it) will never, ever forget her motto, "constant vigilance," drummed into our heads in every session. In this instance, her favorite example of this phenomenon would be the Honda disaster, caused by an over-confidence on ded reckoning plus confirmation bias causing a misread of a radio bearing.
-p
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