[jimmaswell]

> This allowed NASA managers to imply a hierarchy of importance in their head: the writing lower down and in smaller font was ignored

These managers were REALLY that braindead? These are NASA managers in charge of life-or-death decisions, and their dull eyes glaze over as spittle puddles underneath them because they're too stupid to read one whole entire paragraph worth of text without ignoring subheadings because they "don't look important"? I hope they're happy with the result of their childish intellectual laziness.

[einpoklum]

> These managers were REALLY that braindead? These are NASA managers in charge of life-or-death decisions

If you're in charge of 10000 life-or-death decisions, and are on a tight schedule, you are unlikely to give each of them its proper attention.

[Graffur]

It's still their fault and not the person who created the slide.

[Chris2048]

This doesn't sound like a normal decision, but a rather big one. Also, after 9,999 decisions, I'd expect you to be pretty good at picking out what's important.

[throwthere]

I think it’s getting at cognitive bias more than intellect