One thing that I already knew, but have had reinforced lately, is that most people have no intuitive sense of numbers & orders of magnitude.
@Metamagician Dawkins makes this point in The Selfish Gene - we're just not wired up to find it easy to think about vast orders of magnitude
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@PhilosophyExp@Metamagician Therefore a "Shut up and calculate" approach is required. Or perhaps, shut up *until* you've run the calc.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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