Engineering Risk Tolerance and Normalization of Deviance
How repeated no-immediate-consequence reduces the felt-danger of deviation.
Vaughan's Challenger launch analysis shows how deviations become 'just-how-we-do-things-here' through repeated no-immediate-consequence.
The LHS Lens treats normalization of deviance as the inheritance-and-conditioning-of-standards recursion: each tolerated deviation is inherited as the new normal; the discipline is to ask, before re-running, what original specification you no longer meet.
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