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One of the failures of many design engineers. I had similar problems
decades ago with test engineers writing test procedures assuming an
advanced knowledge of electronics. A previous lead tech would have
his best tech vet the test procedures before accepting them. I added
a further step - I had the newest tester try to follow the procedure.
Any step he did not understand had to be rewritten. It irritated the
test engineers, but ensured the procedure actually worked as written.

I've read of a similar test (possibly fictional) being applied to
officer candidates in OCS. They were given a task which needed to be
performed, and instructed to write up a set of orders to a platoon to
carry out the task. If the grunts in the platoon could find a
reasonably legitimate way to misinterpret the orders as-written, so
that the task wasn't accomplished properly, the officer candidate
flunked.

Seems like a good test for design engineers to have to follow... if
Joe or Jane Average-Newbie cannot follow your instructions, they need
to be rewritten.

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