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I can tell if somebody is 2 meter tall or not, and if they are 170 or 180.
Where are all these people that roamed the earth a bunch and still can't tell heights?
Unless you're the same height as me, I'll never remember how tall you are. I was mentoring some girl for half year and when she asked me to guess her height while she was sitting, I guessed ~170, turns out she was 180+.
Height just isn't something I register about a person, and I don't see why anyone would bother trying to remember stuff like that.
I don't mean remembering, I mean estimating, in person.
If a person tells me they are 190 and they are actually 185 I can tell. Can't you?
My height is 192 so 190 vs 185 would be easy to tell, but once you reach ~182 and below it's all a wash. 180 vs 175 I wouldn't have a clue. I was off by more than 10cm in my estimation when they were sitting in front of me, and it was a person I knew well.
Have you tried having them to actually stand up?
She refused until I guessed... She even had the gall to act insulted when I was wrong
Guessing people's height also isn't something I do regularly. Might be why I suck at it.
No but it's because I'm American and those numbers mean nothing to me.
Me too, if they are the same height as me or a bit taller then they are 2m if they are normal height then they are 170-180 and other than that they are sub 160
the imperial system and its consequences
Right? I've built enough walls and pitched enough tarps to know how tall six feet is.
I do admittedly do both more often than most people, but still