"I think there are two main reasons why people don't report it: one, because it seems too insignificant to bother doing anything, and the other is that you feel that nothing is going to be done, because they're someone important in the hierarchy of the firm.
Although the problems were apparent, the patients were reluctant to contact health professionals due to a belief that their problems were too insignificant to bother health care providers with [ 10].
If you do cheat at science, do so in a field which is so insignificant that no one will bother to check.
The holiday was so insignificant that the Founding Fathers didn't even bother taking it off in 1789.
In handwriting that even the most perceptive Glass family member might have difficulty deciphering, Salinger wrote: "Dear Mary -- Please make sure all the errands are done before you go on vacation, as I do not want to be bothered with insignificant things.
Secondly, Nature in Towns and Cities is a powerful account of how thinking changed, largely in the 1970s and 1980s, from seeing urban wildlife as insignificant and not worth bothering about, to regarding it as an enormously valuable social resource, which is how we see it today.
It just goes to show we never know, so why bother with the effort of making a judgment on such an insignificant thing like an older child in a stroller?
By contrast, beer production became so insignificant for so long that it seemed to have escaped the notice of bureaucrats who didn't bother to put in place the usual labyrinth of rules.
The paper's executive editor, Bennie Ivory, called the poll "insignificant," questioned its methods and added: "If we're as irrelevant as his poll suggests, why waste the time and resources to bother with it?
