• Bumblefumble@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Foot-pound is not a unit of pressure, ignoring the fact that it’s a stupid non-metric unit.

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      4 months ago

      And exude is not the word they wanted there - most likely it should have been exert

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      4 months ago

      Yes, it’s stupid. But it’s so ridiculously commonplace when talking about animals exerting force of any kind, especially “bite force”. Even in scientific literature to nat geo. They seem to actually mean force but I have no idea why they use the word pressure. I’ve seen some supposed experts on tv even interchangeably use words force and pressure in the same sentence.

      I hate it.