• @scrion
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    161 month ago

    When I was a kid reading detective stories and the like, I was always baffled by how witnesses interviewed by the police could describe the suspect as e. g. around 6’ 5" - until I realized people use their own height as reference and it’s much easier to judge the smaller, relative difference.

    I guess that works for apartment sizes / area as well.

    • @Takumidesh
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      141 month ago

      Also, people just guess and are wrong most of the time.