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[–] 49 points 9 months ago (3 children)

When I was asked this in a hospital, for a brief moment I thought about answering like the xkcd. But decided it was better not to

https://xkcd.com/883/

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    There is a board game called Wavelength where you play on teams and try to get your teammates to guess where a randomly placed dial lies on a spectrum. The game is really about guessing what your teammates will think the two extremes are because everyone has different ways of thinking. For example, on a spectrum of cold to hot, you could think of it from like ice to fire or from absolute zero to the Planck temperature. It's very interesting and I think it's good to play because it shows that people's perceptions differ even on pretty basic things.

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