Mark Jason Dominus, Perl programmer and author of the book Higher Order Perl, wrote a blog about a digital stadiometer he saw at the doctor's office. He asked one of the doctors about why they used such an expensive and seemingly complex piece of medical equipment.
Dominus writes, "She said that the manual stadiometers were always giving inaccurate readings and that they constantly had to have the service guys in to recalibrate them. The electronic stadiometer, she said, is much more reliable.'But it's a really expensive stadiometer,' I said."
"The service calls on the manual stadiometers were costing us a fortune."
Cost is certainly a factor in picking a digital stadiometer for your clinic. But Dominus continues that the choice of a digital stadiometer reveals something even more complex. He writes, "I said a while back that it is a good idea to get in the habit of assuming that everything is more complex than you imagine. I think there is parallel advice here: assume that bad technical decisions are made rationally, for reasons that are not apparent."
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