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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    Circle jerking about China is as ridiculous as circle jerking about the US. We’ve been here before with US vs USSR, but this time everyone has a megaphone and an IQ that can be measured with a ruler.

    • unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml
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      17 days ago

      Sorry for being pedantic, but those foldable work rulers are exactly 2 m long (at least in MetricLandia), which is, incidentally, the span of IQ values (0-200).

      So yeah, it literally can be mapped one-to-one to a (common type of) ruler.

      A photo of an IQ ruler

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        17 days ago

        This is a common ruler where you live?

        In my country we have rulers with 12 in/ ~30cm as the most common. We also have “yardstick” which is more often a meter stick now. But no foldable rulers.

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          17 days ago

          Yup. There are like 3 types of rulers: normal (a stick), foldable (this) and those retractable metallic strips.

          Sticks are usually either 15 or 30 cm, while the foldables are literally always 2m.

          The coils are the most ubiquitous, but I orefer the foldavles for most things since they tend to fall undet their own weight when measuring longer distances. These sre either 2 or 5 m I think.

          • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            17 days ago

            We have the coils too, except we call it a measuring tape.

            We also have have a flexible soft version used for measuring human proportions for clothing, but it’s called a “tape measure” for some reason.

            I wish we had the foldable kind, that sounds useful.