Collateral damages,
concomitant benefits, unintended consequences, serendipitous occurrences, ancillary
qualities, logical obverse are applicable in all domains.
All widely and
normally accepted approximations are ok as long as they serve the purpose
adequately.
100% measured accuracy
and/or perfection is by itself a doubtful thing.
Measurement is
essential to experiment or evolve parameters or evaluate results.
However, in certain
cases the very measuring tools or measurement yardsticks themselves have been
proven to be arbitrary and not adequately acceptable due to some basic short
comings in which has baffled later day scientific methods.
Hyper consciousness to
perfectionism may not allow one to do many things with confidence be it
excessive attention to grammar or too technically correct presentation of music
or cooking a perfectly tasty food.
Most routine
activities we perform without looking for measuring.
We don't time the
brushing, bathing, breathing intervals or cooking. Hardly anyone cooks with
weighing machine near the stove by habit, repetition and practice the
ingredients are mixed resulting in some edible food.
Imagine if one has to
measure 3 grams salt, 10 grams chilli powder to make a sambar. What about the
variable of intensity of saltiness of a particular brand of salt, spiciness of
chilli etc.
How about measurements
themselves?
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