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by bell-cot 1240 days ago
There are some old stereotypes of detail-obsessed Germans - far too busy measuring the growth rings of a tree with micrometers, and wondering why those are so close together - but never noticing that the tree is small, and growing in a well-shaded part of a large forest.
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The absolute worse case of "not seeing the forest for the tree".