• I_Has_A_Hat
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    1 year ago

    The real answer is that bathroom scales have god awful precision and accuracy.

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      1 year ago

      Most mid market scales buffer the weight to normalize it. I got a $20 one off Amazon that just tells me fresh every time and it’s great. I pooped .4lbs this morning.

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      1 year ago

      Most digital bathroom scales will repeat your last measurement if it hasn’t changed by more than half a pound. I pick up a 1 lb soap bottle off the counter first, then measure again without it for my weigh in.

      Customers really hate seeing if a scale has a little inaccuracy in back to back measurements, so they all build in this bullshitting.

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        1 year ago

        so you’re saying we should invest in an industrial freight shipping scale for maximum accuracy

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      I’m short-sighted and on our mechanical scale, I can’t see the thin lines to count out the precise kilos.
      At first, I was bothered by that, but yeah, in addition to natural weight fluctuations, just bouncing a bit on the scale would stop it at different kilos, so eventually I considered it more of a feature that I couldn’t tell precisely.