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Old 03-24-20, 01:22 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisAlbertson
This is what I call the "standing on a sheet of paper argument". In theory if you are taller you can see farther. So does standing on a sheet of paper enable you to see farther?

There are many things like this that in theory should matter but the effect is so small as to be impossible to measure.
I like to refer to things like that with ”Something being true doesn’t guarantee that it’s important”.
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