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Re:The Psychological Difference Between $12.00 and $11.67 by mikeash on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @10:39AM (#8990917)
Amusingly, this sort of thing happened with the first measured height of Mount Everest. It was measured at exactly 29,000ft, but they fudged it to 29,002ft so it didn't look like an estimate.
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Re:The Psychological Difference Between $12.00 and $11.67 by anulman on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:57PM (#8992876)
Source: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2684102?sid=2110577666...
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Re:The Psychological Difference Between $12.00 and $11.67 by prostoalex on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @02:20AM (#8995707)
They fudged it only for a small portion of world population that's using body parts lengths instead of metric system to measure things.

It's exactly 8.8392 kilometers, seems highly scientific.

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