{"id":5206,"date":"2010-11-18T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/18\/poll-significant-figures\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T10:43:15","slug":"poll-significant-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/18\/poll-significant-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Significant Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grading a big backlog of homeworks today, so I don&#8217;t have time to do any really lengthy posts this morning. Thus, a poll question inspired by going through these homeworks:<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/4107970.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/4107970\/\">You are doing a physics homework problem. How many significant figures do you report?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">survey software<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>While the class in question uses some quantum ideas, the poll is strictly classical, so no superpositions of multiple answers are allowed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(Honestly, at some point, I would expect laziness alone to compel people to round their answers off before their hands cramp up from copying all these digits&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m grading a big backlog of homeworks today, so I don&#8217;t have time to do any really lengthy posts this morning. Thus, a poll question inspired by going through these homeworks: You are doing a physics homework problem. How many significant figures do you report?survey software While the class in question uses some quantum ideas,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/11\/18\/poll-significant-figures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: Significant Figures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,7,137,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-math","category-physics","category-polls","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}