There is a board game called Wavelength where you play on teams and try to get your teammates to guess where a randomly placed dial lies on a spectrum. The game is really about guessing what your teammates will think the two extremes are because everyone has different ways of thinking. For example, on a spectrum of cold to hot, you could think of it from like ice to fire or from absolute zero to the Planck temperature. It’s very interesting and I think it’s good to play because it shows that people’s perceptions differ even on pretty basic things.
Once a paramedic asked me to rate my pain, and I asked if I should use a linear or log scale. He said I could use whichever one I want, so now I always use a log scale
When I was asked this in a hospital, for a brief moment I thought about answering like the xkcd. But decided it was better not to
https://xkcd.com/883/
There is a board game called Wavelength where you play on teams and try to get your teammates to guess where a randomly placed dial lies on a spectrum. The game is really about guessing what your teammates will think the two extremes are because everyone has different ways of thinking. For example, on a spectrum of cold to hot, you could think of it from like ice to fire or from absolute zero to the Planck temperature. It’s very interesting and I think it’s good to play because it shows that people’s perceptions differ even on pretty basic things.
Once a paramedic asked me to rate my pain, and I asked if I should use a linear or log scale. He said I could use whichever one I want, so now I always use a log scale
Good idea, this actually makes more sense!
Japanese radiation guy. All pain pales in comparison to his death.
well, that was something I didn’t need to research and now kinda wish I hadn’t.