"analyse et de regarder ce jeu de données sous tous les angles afin\n",
"analyse et de regarder ce jeu de données sous tous les angles afin\n",
"d'expliquer ce qui ne va pas."
"d'expliquer ce qui ne va pas."
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"## Critical Review of the Challenger O-ring Analysis\n",
"\n",
"After reproducing the historical analysis, three reasoning errors became clear:\n",
"\n",
"1. **Key data were excluded** — the engineers only considered flights that showed O-ring damage, ignoring those with no damage. This introduced selection bias.\n",
"2. **Extrapolation beyond available data** — the Challenger launch temperature (~0 °C) was far below any recorded temperature in the dataset, so the predicted risk was unreliable.\n",
"3. **Uncertainty ignored** — the logistic regression results were interpreted without accounting for uncertainty (no confidence intervals), creating a false sense of precision.\n",
"\n",
"By including all flights, plotting the full dataset, and visualizing uncertainty bands, we can see that the risk of failure increases sharply at lower temperatures — meaning that the Challenger launch conditions were clearly unsafe.\n"