• dwindling7373@feddit.it
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    2 months ago

    I can tell if somebody is 2 meter tall or not, and if they are 170 or 180.

    Where are all these people that roamed the earth a bunch and still can’t tell heights?

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      2 months ago

      Unless you’re the same height as me, I’ll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.

      Height just isn’t something I register about a person, and I don’t see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t mean remembering, I mean estimating, in person.

        If a person tells me they are 190 and they are actually 185 I can tell. Can’t you?

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          My height is 192 so 190 vs 185 would be easy to tell, but once you reach ~182 and below it’s all a wash. 180 vs 175 I wouldn’t have a clue. I was off by more than 10cm in my estimation when they were sitting in front of me, and it was a person I knew well.

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              2 months ago

              She refused until I guessed… She even had the gall to act insulted when I was wrong

              Guessing people’s height also isn’t something I do regularly. Might be why I suck at it.

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      2 months ago

      Right? I’ve built enough walls and pitched enough tarps to know how tall six feet is.

      I do admittedly do both more often than most people, but still