Richard Emling said:
this scale thing can be a real problem for guys that have to be a certin weight in order to fight
Yeah, I recognize that. That's why I made several (and what I thought to be reasonable) suggestions instead of just blowing him off entirely. But steve's a funny guy: one might think he's trolling, but he seems to get genuinely offended when you call him out about it. With a minimal amount of logic and common sense somebody might come to the conclusion that weight is (for the most part) a measurement biased by the scale being used and nobody really knows their weight. If a certain scale is being used for determining your weight for a fight, either use that one or get one that gives measurements close to it. Right? am I right? is this thread a silly question? I mean weight and mass are concrete things, no doubt about it, but quantifying any measurement is subject to human and mechanical error, anyone who's ever done a lab in high school knows this because that shit never worked out like it did on paper.
I mean, it's an alright question I suppose, but it's not something
I would post about. Not that I'm so high and mighty or anything, but- ok here's my thought process, I'll map out the interior monologue for you:
"hmmm, interesting, I just came from the doctor's office and the scale said I weight 180, but my scale here at home says I weight 184. That's weird cause I haven't consumed 4 lbs of anything on my car ride home. I wonder how that is. the only conclusion I can draw is that the two scales being used are callibrated differently. Mine being a 20 dollar scale, it's more likely to be the less accurate of the two... of course it sees less use, so the other one may be equally innacurate due to wear. Maybe nobody really knows their 'true' weight and it's all just based on bad scales. Man I'm glad I don't have to conform to weight classes or I'd have to find a scale that mimiced the behavior of the one used for my weigh ins. I could go for some nachos."
I mean, except for the nacho part (damn, now I DO want some nachos) I would think that would be common for everyone to have the cognitive capability to do this. Is that too great an expectation for the general public? I mean, do people really expect every scale to reflect the accuracy of those at the museum of measurments? are they really baffeled by the difference from one scale to another?
