Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
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Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
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Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#2The rocket always lands as predicted? He didn't pay much attention to the Space Shuttle accidents, did he?
Perhaps he's referring to ballistics. Rocket science generally refers to designing the rockets, which to this day sometimes blow up, lose engines, spiral off course, and suffer various other catastrophes.
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#3As an economist, I salute this post. While common sense will get a person far in life, strategic decision making is a hard process to model.
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#4The rocket always lands as predicted? He didn't pay much attention to the Space Shuttle accidents, did he? Perhaps he's referring to ballistics. Rocket science generally refers to designing the rockets, which to this day sometimes blow up, lose engines, spiral off course, and suffer various other catastrophes.
* blog refers to husband--should it be a "she"?
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#5The rocket always lands as predicted? He didn't pay much attention to the Space Shuttle accidents, did he? Perhaps he's referring to ballistics. Rocket science generally refers to designing the rockets, which to this day sometimes blow up, lose engines, spiral off course, and suffer various other catastrophes.
* blog refers to husband--should it be a "she"?
Yes, twitter account confirms: https://mobile.twitter.com/anjaligupta
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#6The rocket always lands as predicted? He didn't pay much attention to the Space Shuttle accidents, did he? Perhaps he's referring to ballistics. Rocket science generally refers to designing the rockets, which to this day sometimes blow up, lose engines, spiral off course, and suffer various other catastrophes.
Yes, but relatively rarely, and when they do we can almost always work exactly why they did what they did and exactly what went wrong where to cause that failure.
There is no debate as to the science behind the failures of Colombia and Challenger, but there is a lot of debate about what human factors led up to those failures and what to do about them, which rather strengthens his point.
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#7The rocket always lands as predicted? He didn't pay much attention to the Space Shuttle accidents, did he? Perhaps he's referring to ballistics. Rocket science generally refers to designing the rockets, which to this day sometimes blow up, lose engines, spiral off course, and suffer various other catastrophes.
* blog refers to husband--should it be a "she"?
Isn't the person being quoted a man?
>Recently, my husband pointed me to the work of a well-known sociologist, Duncan Watts, earlier at Yahoo! Research, who explains why people exhibit such behavior. Here is my favorite part of his TED talk
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#8I never understood this idiom; to me, 'rocket science' seems to be a fairly well understood issue compared to i.e. the (human) brain.
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#9As an economist, I salute this post. While common sense will get a person far in life, strategic decision making is a hard process to model.
That is probably the reason new models are en vogue every other decade.
Re: Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”
#10I like saying "We're not landing a rover on Mars."