{"text":"Reminds me of a riddle I heard in high school (around the time Canada switched to metric): If it's 0 Celsius here, and twice as cold in Ottawa, what's the temperature there?\n\n\nConflating both the #ZeroIsNotMinimum problem and a negatively worded question about positive values. \n\n\nThink of \"If it's 273 Kelvin here, and twice as cold in Ottawa\"... would that be 546 Kelvin in Ottawa, or 136.5 Kelvin?","truncated":false,"created_at":"Sat Sep 18 21:23:36 -0400 2021","in_reply_to_status_id":"1081506","uri":"tag:gs.jonkman.ca,2021-09-19:noticeId=1081672:objectType=note","source":"web","source_link":null,"id":1081672,"in_reply_to_user_id":25805,"in_reply_to_screen_name":"lxo","geo":null,"user":{"id":2,"name":"Bob Jonkman","screen_name":"bobjonkman","location":"Elmira, Ontario, Canada","description":"Computer Consultant, Instructor, Project Manager, System Administrator\u2026\nVolunteer at Radio Waterloo\nCo-founder of http:\/\/kwvoip.ca\nGnuPG Key fingerprint = 04F7 742B 8F54 C40A E115 26C2 B912 89B0 D2CC E5EA Political me is @BobJonkmanGreen https:\/\/gs.jonkman.ca\/BobJonkmanGreen","profile_image_url":"https:\/\/gs.jonkman.ca\/avatar\/2-48-20170904122929.jpeg","profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/gs.jonkman.ca\/avatar\/2-48-20170904122929.jpeg","profile_image_url_profile_size":"https:\/\/gs.jonkman.ca\/avatar\/2-96-20170904114939.jpeg","profile_image_url_original":"https:\/\/gs.jonkman.ca\/avatar\/2-300-20170904114939.jpeg","groups_count":82,"linkcolor":false,"backgroundcolor":false,"url":"http:\/\/bob.jonkman.ca\/blogs","protected":false,"followers_count":294,"friends_count":589,"created_at":"Mon Sep 04 07:47:34 -0400 2017","utc_offset":"-14400","time_zone":"America\/Toronto","statuses_count":705,"following":false,"statusnet_blocking":false,"notifications":false,"statusnet_profile_url":"https:\/\/gs.jonkman.ca\/bobjonkman","favourites_count":644},"statusnet_html":"Reminds me of a riddle I heard in high school (around the time Canada switched to metric): If it's 0 Celsius here, and twice as cold in Ottawa, what's the temperature there?
\nConflating both the #ZeroIsNotMinimum<\/a><\/span> problem and a negatively worded question about positive values.
\nThink of \"If it's 273 Kelvin here, and twice as cold in Ottawa\"... would that be 546 Kelvin in Ottawa, or 136.5 Kelvin?","statusnet_conversation_id":549781,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}