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Normal_Anomaly comments on We're all forgetting how to read analog clocks. Or are we? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 28 November 2010 04:11:24PM 1 point [-]

I read digital clocks faster, but I have an analogue watch. Partly for aesthetic reasons and partly because I don't want to lose the skill. Similarly, I do arithmetic in my head whenever I can spare the extra seconds, because I don't want to be dependent on a calculator (and for the status).

Comment author: Relsqui 28 November 2010 08:32:29PM 2 points [-]

I do arithmetic in my head whenever I can spare the extra seconds

Same, except since I can almost always spare the extra seconds, my condition is "when I can afford to be as likely to make a mistake as I believe that I am."

Although more frequently I just don't have a calculator handy.

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