If your kitchen/coffee/common usage scale tells you something weighs e.g. 436.8g, do you think that's accurate and it weighs exactly 436.8g (within the digits the scale displays at least)?
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High-key disappointed that mastodon poll options are so short because the 4ᵗʰ option should really read “No, because my life is governed by DIN EN 45501 and I can not unsee the horrors” but that doesn't fit
@dequbed knowing my smol share about this topic, I wouldn’t bet on it :p it could be accurate though, it’s not impossible with the numbers provided
Sep 11, 2026, 8:55 AM@dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at my previous scale well my 0.01g scale is probably not off by more than 0.1g which is all I need really, so I don't worry about it
Sep 11, 2026, 8:58 AM@dequbed@mastodon.chaosfield.at my previous scale measured from the feet instead of a separate platform, so sometimes a grain of rice or something would get stuck under there and it would be off by 25% :neobot_woozy:
Sep 11, 2026, 8:59 AM@dequbed metrology is a man made horror regrettably within comprehension
@q as a former (chemical) lab technician and a woman it makes me happy to report that, very literally, all scales lie. By a lot.
Sep 11, 2026, 5:31 PM@dequbed Mine is about 0.5%+8 counts, so it's fine. (Verifed periodically with NIST-tracable transfer standards.)
@AMS ah yes you're a case of the 4ᵗʰ option as well.
Sep 11, 2026, 8:11 PM@dequbed I can stop any time I want... probably.