I think, mostly, Engineers do their best but Management being supposedly superior in their own minds; after all they are in charge of whatever, are quite prepared to take risks, in fact that is a big part of what they do, taking chances and keeping "an eye on the main chance".
So they have a propensity to fail or not quite succeed as they intended and so often feel that they would rather cover up than admit that they were wrong or have in some way failed.
It's more how life itself is set up; if you are too careful, which is what engineering types try to be you won't catch the big fish, so to speak.
The educated guess is how it may be justified, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The counterpoint is "you can never be too safe", or can you?
It's somewhat of a tightrope walk; inherent in life I feel.
So they have a propensity to fail or not quite succeed as they intended and so often feel that they would rather cover up than admit that they were wrong or have in some way failed.
It's more how life itself is set up; if you are too careful, which is what engineering types try to be you won't catch the big fish, so to speak.
The educated guess is how it may be justified, nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The counterpoint is "you can never be too safe", or can you?
It's somewhat of a tightrope walk; inherent in life I feel.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche