alt Hacker Newsdoes this failure mean I need to change something about this system?
It's safer to say 'does this failure mean I need to change the system?'. Otherwise you're still facing the single cause trap.
does this failure mean I need to change something about this system?
It's safer to say 'does this failure mean I need to change the system?'. Otherwise you're still facing the single cause trap.
> Otherwise you're still facing the single cause trap.
"Something" does not have to mean "one single thing". But I would be fine with your phraseology if it ended up making it clearer to whoever was doing the analysis.