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Re^7: XY Problem

by Anonymous Monk
on Dec 28, 2014 at 19:08 UTC ( [id://1111583]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^6: XY Problem
in thread XY Problem

Some people, when they have a problem with X say, "I know! I'll use Y..." Now they have two problems.

So somebody has a problem with X, decide they want to use Y, and have a second problem with that. The quote ends there, but obviously there might have been a direct solution to X or a solution Z that is better suited and/or easier to implement which they wouldn't have had a problem with, giving one problem to solve instead of two. Aside from the humorous aspect, the quote clearly implies one should consider solutions to X that are different from Y.

So how does that not describe an XY Problem? Is the "you didn't tell us about X" really such an important part of the concept?

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