Definition of "non-technical"

It is therefore the more surprising that recent articles in the non-technical press have repeated some of these misleading statements and statistical comparisons.

1941 March, “Notes and News: Underestimating the Enemy's Strength”, in Railway Magazine, page 129

So right away, even the simplest definition of capacity presents a non-technical trade off, between headway and journey time, not that that's much of a problem in practice.

2019 October, William Barter, “West Coast capacity study”, in Modern Railways, page 66