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Dr Fisher's casebook: In praise of simple methods
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2005.00096.x
Subject(s) - praise , casebook , simple (philosophy) , hammer , computer science , management , operations research , law , mathematics , engineering , philosophy , art , political science , economics , literature , epistemology , mechanical engineering
An electrician was called out to fix a faulty piece of electrical equipment. He looked at it carefully and then produced his hammer and hit the machine very precisely. It then worked and for this he charged £100. When the customer protested that this was very expensive for such a simple procedure, the electrician wrote him an itemised bill.