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Researcher ID

Michael Simonson0000-0003-3478-7879

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Distance Learning

ISSN

1547-4712

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

At any rate, if you Google "rule of thumb" you will find there are many explanations about where the phrase came from-everything from violence (proper thickness of a stick used to discipline someone or something), to physical measurement (distance between the base of the thumbnail and the first joint is an inch), to wind measurement (raising a wet thumb into the air), or to setting a table (in order set a row of plates one places the thumb on the edge of the table and extends it).

Volume

3

Issue

4

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