When I was in the 8th grade, I heard an example about a museum guard
who was telling the visitors that a certain item was 4008 years old.
Somebody asked him about how he knew it so exactly. His answer was:
"I started working here 8 years ago, and then they told me that that
item was 4 thousand years old".
It was supposed to be an example about number of significant digits and
unnecessary accuracy. But over the years, I've learned that (with a
small but great [when it happens] exception) many museum/tour guides
(especially in regular tourist places) are just machines who learned
and then play back the information without giving much thought to it.
Cheers,
Igor
Wed Jul 25 12:29:55 EDT 2012
Jack Davis wrote:
> Was advised by a Hearst's Castle tour guide that flash was banned due
> to it's continuous used actually leaching color from tapestries and
> certain other (unidentified) art work materials.
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