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diff --git a/txt/shower.txt b/txt/shower.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..83c104c --- /dev/null +++ b/txt/shower.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ + How many outcomes are there to a shower? + + We have to set our scope and threshold. You're probably + thinking that there is one outcome: getting clean. + However, there are infinite outcomes to any event if + you're not careful. + + First, I will limit the observation to the instant the + shower is done. What if I don't? If you count the process, + then every footstep you take in the shower will impact + how the shower goes on a microscopic level that, with + just the right chance, might snowball into a visible effect, + like slipping and injuring yourself. I will not count footsteps. + I will not count the way your muscles contract and relax unless + they are a factor in the success of the shower. Therefore, + I will assume the shower is successful; that is, complete. + + Second, I will limit the impact of the shower to external + physical cleanliness. I will not count psychological effects, + nor will I count the effect (if any) it has on the movement + of red blood cells inside of you, whether they hit the walls + of your vessels in certain ways as they squeeze through, nor will + I pretend that such movement affects the process of showering. + If I count it, there will be infinite outcomes, most of which have + no real discernible value, because the useful data is cleanliness. + I will assume that the way soap bubbles on your skin has no impact, + because there are infinite manners in which the bubbles will appear, + if they appear at all in the foam. I will count, however, whether + the soap covers every picometer of your skin. If not, then how much + of the skin it touches. This is important in assessing the totality + of the cleansing. + + With that out of the way, because there are infinite numbers, there + are infinite "levels" of cleanliness. The percentage can be any number + between 0 and 100. However, some people don't use soap or shampoo + at all. Sometimes, people have a quick shower to rinse off sweat and + nothing else. In cases like this, and in all cases really, it may be + more useful to measure the change in cleanliness level. In other + words, we will count how much cleaner you got. This should exclude + obvious extreme cases like not turning on the water. A shower must + constitute of water at the very least, and the water must touch you. + Usage of soap is not a must, but another factor in cleanliness. + A shower using a bit of soap cleans more than a shower without any. + That translates meaningfully into the calculation and measurement. + + To reduce the number of outcomes from infinite to usable, we can + define ranges and conditions. For example, we can produce a binary + of "clean" and "not clean" based on a threshold of cleanliness. If your + cleanliness at the end of the shower is above a certain percentage, you + are clean. An issue with this is that you may have been clean before the + shower too, so this does not show the effect of the shower. We can thus + return to the change-measuring method: a shower is effective if its + net cleanliness change meets the amount required by the showerer. This + gives room for relative usefulness of the shower. Someone entering the + shower might not be looking for the deepest cleanse. I disagree with + that personally, but that does not matter.
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