via Made by Monkeys,
A new study released last week by two Canadian researchers reveals that design flaws are responsible for 75% of all toy recalls, and that this percentage has remained consistent since 1988. The authors of the study say these design problems potentially can be avoided in the future by improving organizational communication and learning. They plan to investigate how organizations can more effectively learn from their own and other's mistakes and capture and exploit that knowledge. But the study also raises troubling questions about the diligence of the engineering and design effort, and whether the beleaguered engineering community is being called upon to do too much with too few resources.
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I think headlines are the leading reason people are so ill-informed.