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'''Somebody else's problem''' (also known as '''someone else's problem''' or '''SEP''') is a phrase coined comedically by [[Douglas Adams]] that refers to a "[[Field (physics)|field]]" that hides objects. It has since passed into common usage, usually to refer to things people don't see, or don't want to see. | '''Somebody else's problem''' (also known as '''someone else's problem''' or '''SEP''') is a phrase coined comedically by [[Douglas Adams]] that refers to a "[[Field (physics)|field]]" that hides objects. It has since passed into common usage, usually to refer to things people don't see, or don't want to see. | ||
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Revision as of 07:03, 5 April 2018
Somebody else's problem (also known as someone else's problem or SEP) is a phrase coined comedically by Douglas Adams that refers to a "field" that hides objects. It has since passed into common usage, usually to refer to things people don't see, or don't want to see.
Origin
In Douglas Adams' 1982 novel Life, the Universe and Everything (in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series), the character Ford Prefect says,
The narration then explains:
References by others
Since the publication of Template:H2G2, the phrase has been used by others, such as:
- Referring to a team working on a computer programming project, Alan F. Blackwell once wrote: "Many sub-goals can be deferred to the degree that they become what is known amongst professional programmers as an 'S.E.P.' – somebody else's problem."[1]
- Christopher Negus, writing on the origin of Unix at Bell Labs in the 1970s, described Bell Labs at the time as "a think tank where ideas came first and profits were somebody else's problem".[2]
- It has been used as a fictitious example of "psychological invisibility".[3]
- It has been called a "psychological device".[4]
See also
- Buck passing
- Bystander effect
- Externality
- First they came ...
- Global issue
- Inattentional blindness
- NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard)
- Other people's money
- Sheeple
References
- ↑ Blackwell, Alan F.; Arnold, H.L. (January 1997). "Simulating a Software Project: The PoP Guns go to War". Proceedings of the 9th Annual Meeting of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group: 53–60. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~afb21/publications/PPIG97.html. Retrieved on 2015-03-24.
- ↑ Negus, Christopher (2006-05-10). "Linux's roots in Unix (part 1, chapter 1, section 3)". Fedora 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Bible. Bible (Book 327). New York: Wiley. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-4717-5491-6. OCLC 69746564.
- ↑ Sight unseen, Catherine Schulz, The New Yorker, April 13, 2015
- ↑ Discounting IQ’s Relevance to Organizational Behavior: The “Somebody Else’s Problem” in Management Education, Bryan Pesta et. al, Open Differential Psychology, May 26, 2015
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