Show recovery of lost standards Standard 3 A curious experiment was once niale male to determine whether a lost standard could be recovered by cutely per personal zonal efforts the assumption was mado made that the standard of length was lost one hundred operatives and others dealing with measurements benl ure re nL ments is were asked to give by estimate their ideas ot of what ahn abr given st standard andara was in other words to at length or the meter it was round found that tiro ore guesses wore were roost most tic nc curato curate for lengths of about six inches that sm all lengths were lulled and larger ones were overestimated abed taking tile average of the subjects the result varied but bat a few one thousandths from tho the truth |