Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by contravariant on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:29PM
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Be sure to switch back when someone asks you to guess their weight or age though. Most people don't appreciate it when you're off by one in logarithmic scale.
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Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by layer8 on Monday November 06, 2023 @04:47PM
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They may be flattered as long as you don’t tell them that it’s log scale.
On another note, our senses generally work on a log scale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber–Fechner_law), so it’s not something unnatural.
Re:UHZ1: NASA Telescopes Discover Record-Breaking Black Hole
by _jal on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:33PM
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> our senses generally work on a log scale, so it’s not something unnatural.
Where confusion creeps back in is when sensory input is quantified. People don't perceive a 1000 lumen source as twice as bright as a 500 lumen source, but tend to think they should.