@martinvermeer@fediscience.org
Post #1779056
2026-03-11 09:10 UTC
@sellathechemist @HGourlayUCL This is true. And it protects you from dumb mistakes. Like, my students doing the Eratosthenes thing and finding the radius of the Earth is 6000 m...
Or, this
https://fediscience.org/@martinvermeer/116192911250750242
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@HGourlayUCL@mastodon.education 2026-03-11 09:45
@martinvermeer @sellathechemist Yes, or a close member of my family calculating that a satellite was in orbit at a height burrowing just below the Earth's surface.
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@sellathechemist@mastodon.social 2026-03-11 10:58
@martinvermeer @HGourlayUCL I do four workshops with life science students on estimation. Some love it. Some absolutely hate the fact that I don't really care what the "right answer" is and cannot get their head round the idea that it's an approach, a process, not a result. Maybe they'll thank me 10 years from now.