Classification criteria made before the whole picture is known are highly likely to be wrong.

• The classification criteria created in advance, without a complete picture, have a high probability of being incorrect.

  • The Intellectual Production of Engineers p.159 (5.2.4.4) Disadvantages of creating classification criteria in advance
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