@xeno in Germany, we have a saying: "wer misst, misst Mist" which means "the one who measures measures crap" and it means that you can't 100% trust measurements because of measurement errors.

@sanity @xeno which is why 90% of my physics class was accounting for error propagation and specifying the certainty

@[email protected] @zimward lol yeah so much uncertainty propagation

@xeno @sanity @zimward Meanwhile nowadays (some) students in undergraduate lab practice seem to let AI generate the error propagation formulas because they're nothing like what got taught.