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In Reply to: RE: You "doubt"? So, haven't actually tried? posted by Dawnrazor on July 23, 2012 at 21:28:16:
Yup, shielding can help certain problems, sometimes a lot. But I think this instance was mostly an example, and a good one, of becoming more aware of the limits of your assumptions. It's not clear how carefully he pursued the actual case or if indeed he even tried it, it may have just been a gedanken experiment.
One of the reasons I say that is that the obvious next steps such as determining the points of susceptibility and verifying whether the shielding was the aspect of the cable design that really made the difference weren't mentioned. While it's plausible that shielding helped in this instance the mechanisms aren't really determinable from the post. Something as simple as moving the cables around would help answer that.
My perspective is from a lifetime working both with electronic systems and with other people working with electronics. Not that there is anything unique about electronics however, it just happens to be my field. It's really about us humans and how our thought processes can go awry. Being good at jumping to conclusions from sparse data probably had strong survival value in the jungle since being wrong and being slow had the same outcome. Nowadays however, like our appendix, it's an artifact that can work against us with some groups such as politicians, preachers and peddlers being infamous exploiters of this human tendency. Not all mind you, not all...
So where do cable hawkers fall in the grand scheme of things? What do you think? How about the component manufacturers?
Caveat emptor...
Rick
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