Rules of thumb, or DeROTs

Michael Simonson

Rules of thumb, or DeROTs

Michael Simonson

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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).

Original language	American English
Journal	Distance Learning
Volume	3
State	Published - Jan 1 2006

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