re: "Entire Premise" - sorry, I didn't mean to say that was the "Entire premise" of the article, I was just trying to say that his "entire premise regarding the golf game analogy" was off. Landing Planes is systemically guaranteed to be safe, it's no longer a function of individual performance, whereas there is nothing systemic about golf games - it's all about individual performance.
The OP was trying to compare and contrast a "System"'s behavior with an "Individual's" behavior, which was where the article went awry.
Re: Gladwell - Gladwell was most definitely not the source of "Korean Culturalism" regarding Air Safety. He simply wrote a popular chapter on an issue that already well documented.
The cause of any pilot error is not law-of-large numbers - pilot error has been, for the most part, systemically eliminated from flying. What's left now is system-flaws.
One of the obvious flaws at SFO was it's GlideScope Indicator was out of service. I have to believe that this will turn out to be a major contributor to the accident, and, in the future, Airport's may be much more cautious about disabling such safety equipment unless absolutely unavoidable.
The OP was trying to compare and contrast a "System"'s behavior with an "Individual's" behavior, which was where the article went awry.
Re: Gladwell - Gladwell was most definitely not the source of "Korean Culturalism" regarding Air Safety. He simply wrote a popular chapter on an issue that already well documented.
The cause of any pilot error is not law-of-large numbers - pilot error has been, for the most part, systemically eliminated from flying. What's left now is system-flaws.
One of the obvious flaws at SFO was it's GlideScope Indicator was out of service. I have to believe that this will turn out to be a major contributor to the accident, and, in the future, Airport's may be much more cautious about disabling such safety equipment unless absolutely unavoidable.