Aug 15, 2009
What would we call the stat that is to time what windchill is to temperature?
As long as nonsensical stats like windchill exist, how about another one?
It’s 8:32 out there, folks, but it feels like 2:17.
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It already has a name. It’s called jetlag
in the south, we hear more about the “heat index” than a windchill. maybe it could be the “time index”.
Sensory time–since it’s based on how you’re feeling? Hmm. The clock says it’s only 8:30 PM, but my eyes are burning like they normally do at 10 PM.
That’s a funny thought. But I don’t agree that windchill/heat index is nonsensical. Wind makes us feel cooler, which is why we like fans (or why we don’t like a lot of wind on a really cold day). Fans don’t actually lower the temperature in the room, but it does help dissipate heat off our bodies which makes us feel cooler. And it’s something that can be measured to some degree.
A “time index” would be completely subjective and wouldn’t have any consistency across people.
I guess I thought about that too much.
You’re insane. And funny.
I’m with Josh.
Pre-Caffeine & Post-Caffeine Index.
ie. “It’s 7am, but with the Pre-Caffeine index it’s 2am.”
Where you live it may not be that important but when the wind chill is below -40, and it can be where I live, that is important to note.
as time is to a church business meeting.
If we can figure this out, I’d like to use it to schedule meetings. I’ve been in too many meetings when it felt like 6am. Feeling like 11am would’ve been much better.
I believe windchill is a pretty well determined thing. And it makes good sense as it can be determined mathematically and applies to the average person. It also has some bearing on when frostbite occurs, which can be pretty important in the cold.
Windchill is not nonsensical, I’m with Tanner and Josh S. I think Elizabeth Esther is on to something there with the caffeine index…
I like your question though. It won’t work because time is constant and people aren’t, so there’s no way to consistently measure. I think jet lag is the closet equivalent.
Waiting Room Time.
(Not just medical, either; how about auto repair waiting rooms?)
DMV Time.
(A U.S. phenomenon as nobody here in Canada has to wait to renew their license because we have socialized transportation.)
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LOL I understand the basic concept of wind chill/heat index. But yeah they are kinda silly. Why not just say it is actually 22 degrees or 100 degrees outside?
Okay, I agree and laughed, you are funny. But there is something to this. I agree with Josh – because time is so subjective to the person it would be hard to say.
However, I have noticed something similar in the height of people. I call it “tall” or “short attitude”. Have you ever met someone who seems taller or shorter than they really are? (The little woman with the BIG personality?) For expample guess how tall Brian T is, then go ask him. I bet you underestimated. I’ve met some 6 footers that seem like 5’9″ or 5’10″.
See what I mean?
Windchill is to Temp as Agenda is to Time. Because time flies when you’re having fun, and rags when you have to sit through drudgery.
I call it “construction time”, and I have to try very hard to be at least 30 minutes late to every appointment.
Example: Let’s meet at nine, which in construction time is somewhere between 9:30 and 10:15.
It’s hard to zero in on the exact fluctuation, though.
We have it – it’s called Daylight Savings Time. Hey kids, it’s bedtime, even though at 8 PM the sun is still halfway up the sky and it feels like 4 PM…
Time flys like an arrow; fruit flys like a banana.
In Scotland, where I am, it’s August, but the wind chill makes it feel Decemberish.
I don’t think we have words for it in English, but I was taught that those two concepts of time correspond to “chronos” and “kairos” in Greek. Chronos is linear, scientific, unchanging, objective. Kairos is how time feels subjectively (e.g. flies when you’re having fun.)
I ride a motorcycle every day. Wind chill is not nonsense to me. In a couple months, when the Florida temp is 55, but the wind chill on a motorcycle is about 25, wind chill will be very important.