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Matt - Kind 1 Sisyphus · 20h

I weighed a woman at work. While on the scale she said she wanted to remove her phone and keys from her pocket to reduce her weight. This woman takes the keys and phone out of her hoody pocket and hol...

Scott ••• @GoldfishThumb1 1791569895

Things in your pants pockets make you weigh more because gravity is stronger closer to the scale. 👍

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Bill Cypher · 19h

It is funny because it is true. She should have held them overhead. Yeah yeah I know his scale lacks the precision but it is true.

Matt - Kind 1 Sisyphus · 18h

There's a good reason many intro math and science courses cover concepts like scale, precision, and rounding. The two decimal places on our scale (kg) probably aren't registering that small of a difference (3 inches above her pocket). From our perspective (medically), it would hardly matter (at her...