army1987 comments on 2012 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

65 Post author: Yvain 03 November 2012 11:00PM

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Comment author: FAWS 04 November 2012 05:43:35PM 20 points [-]

I wonder whether there are visible conversion effects on the redwood question for native metric users? Estimates slightly on the short side and neatly divisible by three because the quick and dirty meter -> feet conversion is multiplying by three?

Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2012 07:08:23PM 2 points [-]

I rounded my guess to the nearest hundred, to cancel that effect.