I’ve never taken apart a bathroom scale or tried to measure any of the above, but my intuition is that this article completely misses the point. Bathroom scale

I’ve never taken apart a bathroom scale or tried to measure any of the above, but my intuition is that this article completely misses the point. Bathroom scales don’t deform a whole lot, and humans are squishy! When you take a running leap onto a playground swing, you are part of an oscillating pendulum. When you step onto a scale, sure, there will be a transient, but there will also be a whole lot of noise as you balance, wiggle, breathe, etc, and I bet the latter is dominates the former. A self-respecting bathroom scale (not the kind that is intentionally biased to read the same number twice in a row) acts like a moderately low-pass-filtered sensor. As you move a bit, the number changes. So the scale is averaging over time, not waiting for some very stiff internal spring to stop oscillating.