Re:Live Presidential Forecast
by sk5t on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @11:08PM
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Perhaps if the person being weighed jumps around, in which case the scale is doing its job correctly--or a very sensitive scale reacting to changes in air pressure. Scale readings generally do not jiggle/bounce with a static load.
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After standing on a scale and you get oscillations from momentum which soon resolve to your actual weight. You see the same thing when putting fruit on a scale at the grocery store.
You can see similar issues with most purely mechanical dials to one degree or another when they are responding to a rapid change.