army1987 comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Yvain 26 October 2014 06:05PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 November 2014 12:35:50PM 3 points [-]

I used a picture of my hand. We're just going for ratios, so that should be fine,

Only if you're sure your hand is perpendicular to the line of sight of your camera (and not too close to it), otherwise you might get foreshortening effects.

Comment author: jkaufman 10 November 2014 01:55:05AM 0 points [-]

Yes, the key thing being perspective. Simple angling is fine, because we just care about ratios, but the closer your hand is to the lens the more angling will distort the measurement through perspective.