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.
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.
The real answer is that bathroom scales have god awful precision and accuracy.
They are both imprecise AND inaccurate?
When talking about measurements, “precision” and “accuracy” have slightly different meanings See here
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.
Good job
Hmm, how would they buffer it, if you’ve got multiple household members? Or are we talking about those weird scales that require an app?
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.