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I work in a highly technical field, yet I see this all the time. We do things because that is the way it has always been done. A barrel of oil is 42 gallons. How did this come about? It was the size of the containers used to transport oil when the first oil wells were drilled. Other countries sell oil by the cubic meter rather than the barrel. It also applies when people use their problem solving skills. They use the same methods over and over without really questioning why they are doing something a certain way.
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