Critical Nonsense

329! Imprecise Language


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How many other things do we have that we think of as imprecise but are actually pretty precise and agreed upon? 

This week, Joey and Jess talk about box plots, New York neighborhood names, Australian colloquialisms, measurement language, baking, and square roots. They don’t talk about The Smiths

references 

  • Box plot 
  • Reading a Box and Whisker Plot 
  • Perceptions of Probability 
  • The New York TimesAn Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods 
  • The Journal of NeuroscienceDistinct Contributions of the Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia to Arithmetic Procedures 
  • Goldilocks Zone 
  • Square root 
  • Spiral of Theodorus 
  • Klein bottle 
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