Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/11/03/watch-people-attempt-to-approx.html
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Years of staring at the ceiling and then turning over to check the clock (now phone) on my bedside table would make me pretty good at this, I think.
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I led a customer service class where we would try to guess 1 minute. Hands started going up at 30 seconds.
I can’t imagine guessing an hour.
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It’s the length of time it takes for brownies to bake and cool, which is never short enough.
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Watch people attempt to approximate when one hour has passed … to win $10,000.
I think it is a much different game with that much money on the line.
9" off is damn impressive.
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My father used to do that in his creative writing classes: especially if someone had written: “…for a minute everyone…”
If I take a nap, it’s pretty much always 45 minutes. It’d try that as the first iteration.
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If I recall correctly, Ken Kesey was given some of these temporal tests while tripping and managed to do fairly well with them.
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