Music Appreciation And Human Factors  Success is not based on
"record" sales, but on the success of evolved safety cultures.
Let me explain. If you don’t like classical, opera, folk, rap or
hip hop music, when you hear those genres of music you can’t
differentiate among the artists or identify an era of the
recording. Because you just don’t care.  However, when you like
a certain genre of music, you know the name of the artist,
whether the tune is old or new. You appreciate the subtleties
because it’s your kind of music.  I’ve come to the conclusion
that the analogy to music appreciation helps explain why
individuals say that all human factors initiatives are the same
and have gone unchanged. They throw around comments like “HF is
more than the Dirty Dozen, PEAR or the Swiss Cheese.” They know
just enough buzzwords to discuss the topic, but they don’t
appreciate the artists, can’t identify the subtleties of
interventions, and generally are not big fans of “human
factors.” But they do present a potential new