No blame culture.

This story caught just my eye. Apparently Neil Armstrong claims he said "One small step for 'a' man, one giant leap for mankind". Neil is positive about this and believes the word could have been lost in static transmittion.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5441862/Neil-Armstrong-did-not-say-a-man-on-the-moon.html

So scientists have done a study, they have analized his speach patterns and all that and determined that he did not say 'a man' but simply what we have become familiar with, 'small step for man'.

My 1st reaction is simlly like it matters! 40 years ago, is this knowledge going to make a difference? No it really does not matter.

Is it possible that somebody has managed to fill their time doing a possibly perfectly plausible study which no matter what the outcome is completly inconsequential?

We see it more and more today, because nobody want to take responsibility.

Examples of this,
-: a briefly described items on ebay can not be complained about because the seller does not state either good or bad features.
-: a survey on a house today tends to state the obvious. There are signs of damp here, there is a crack in the wall there. Yet often you will not find it say there is damp in the wall and what appropriate action needs to be taken or the cracks in the wall are caused by subsidance and this needs fixing. If the survey company do then they could be found liable for prompting action that did not need to be dome of the other way round.
-: where I work, even though there are people paid to make decisions very few do

And so it seems to be the workplace and society in general. There are a lot of pepole who are unwilling to make a decision if there is much of a consequence to that decision.

In my opinion.