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Reevaluating Accountability in Engineering Disasters

The Challenger accident raises questions about whether decision-makers acted unethically or made a technical mistake. A paper argued that managers made decisions based on available information at the time, but engineers with the same information drew different conclusions. This discrepancy highlights the need to reexamine accountability and the role of hindsight in assessing responsibility.

Mathematics & logic, Logic & Reasoning, Cognitive Biases