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Behavioral & Communication — question 9 of 10

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You and a senior engineer disagree about the root cause of an intermittent hardware failure. You ran one test that supports your theory, but it's not conclusive -- there's a plausible alternative explanation you haven't ruled out yet. In a design review, how do you present your position, and what do you do if it later turns out you were wrong?

How sure are you?

Being confidently wrong costs more mastery than admitting a guess — that is deliberate, and it is how misconceptions get found.

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