# Qibla quibble

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [October 17, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qibla-quibble/734909 "2015-10-17T15:57:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qibla-quibble/734909/21 "2015-10-21T21:54:34Z")

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> [@leahcim](#):
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> But we would probably want a unit that allows us to do day to day measurements of wackiness without having to say, “times ten to the minus” nearly so often.

It’s clear to me that to be useful such a scale would have to be logarithmic, like the Richter scale or deciBels. Maybe deciPals or something.

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**Post date:** [October 21, 2015, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/qibla-quibble/734909/22 "2015-10-21T21:59:20Z")

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If you need a standard of “normality”, you could use Andy Taylor from the Andy Griffith show.

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