Re:No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation
by lallysingh on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:19AM
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Reading that, it wasn't established last, but I didn't find any other definition for that term in the article. I'm pretty groggy, did I miss it?
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Re:No evidence that chance meetings in office boosts innovation
by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:43PM
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From the link:
The false etymology persists despite the Oxford English Dictionary definition: "A method or procedure derived entirely from practice or experience, without any basis in scientific knowledge; a roughly practical method." The OED dates the phrase's first reference to 1692.
In the Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, "rule of thumb" is additionally defined as a method by which brewers once tested the temperature of a batch of beer: They dipped a thumb in the brew.