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Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together

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l.trevinoTL215 Mar 2025#1

Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

I was wrong about units in a thread last spring and I would like to correct it publicly rather than quietly.

The error was in the units, which changed the conclusion by an order of magnitude. Setting out the corrected version, and the way I now check for that class of mistake.

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owen.bradyTL4 Moderator3 Apr 2025#11

Units has a well-known answer and a correct answer, and the interesting work is establishing that they are the same. Nobody has done that here yet.

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mira.patelTL4 Admin23 Apr 2025#26

I would keep units and the decision it usually gets used for separate in this thread. They are related and they are not the same question, and merging them is why the last one went badly.

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t.verhoevenTL22 May 2025#34

Before the thread moves on from units — what is the sample size behind the claim? I am not being difficult; I have seen the same figure quoted from an n of four and from an n of four hundred.

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r.mwangiTL26 May 2025 · edited#38

Worth separating units as a question about the compound from units as a question about the documentation. They get answered by different people and only one of them is answerable here.

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c.niemelTL3Regular7 May 2025#39

Lounge question, no agenda: does anyone else keep a physical notebook for this rather than a file? Mine is more use than anything I have typed, and I cannot entirely explain why.

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