Daniel Flaumenhaft wrote:
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was actually .9997 grams. This was why we still used them -- the lab director was a Buddhist and thought (and had convinced the faculty) that we needed to really understand what it meant to weigh something.
daniel
The issue is much broader than weighing, or measuring any physical magnitude. It is an important lesson because it applies to how you interpret the political news you get from the media -- you must calibrate them (that is, discover their bias, intentional or not) before you accept the results, the news. It also applies to interpersonal relations and to about any input from the outside world, even that acquired through your own senses.
Gerardo Razumney
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