Timeline for Could one measure a stick to an arbitrary precision by having its length estimated by enough people?
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| Apr 2, 2014 at 16:30 | history | edited | Mark Rovetta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 1, 2014 at 20:03 | comment | added | user6972 | @SebastianHenckel it's called bias because it averages out to some bias, not zero. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 16:12 | comment | added | Mark Rovetta | What if everyone had a different measuring rule manufactured in the same factory - and made of green wood - which shrank 0.1% over time? The inaccuracies would not average out. | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 16:01 | comment | added | George G | Would it? What if there's a systematic bias that most humans share? | |
| Apr 1, 2014 at 15:40 | comment | added | yippy_yay | The "measuring rule" is different with every respondent - their best estimate. So the bias would even out. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 18:10 | history | answered | Mark Rovetta | CC BY-SA 3.0 |