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Exactness is not the most valuable property of a gauge. It's visual proportionality. If you want exactness, go for symbols, but you will lose the immediate sen
by rhn_mk1 4y ago
Exactness is not the most valuable property of a gauge. It's visual proportionality.
If you want exactness, go for symbols, but you will lose the immediate sense of proportion between multiple values.
- ben_w 4y ago> Exactness is not the most valuable property of a gauge. It's visual proportionality. Indeed, but exactness is the most valuable property of a clock, which is why digital timepieces win over analog (guages) in most cases.
- rhn_mk1 4y agoYou assert your opinion "exactness is most valuable in clocks" to prove your argument. Someone with the opposite opinion can just as well prove the opposite.
- ben_w 4y agoMy evidence, and I suppose I could've phrased it better in the preceding comment, is the analog clocks being mostly replaced with digital ones.
- rhn_mk1 4y agoTo which I say, got any sources :P? Also, the ones that do get replaced, are they motivated by being ergonomic or by other reasons? To give an example of what I mean, cars are losing knobs for touch screens, which are arguably not better.