>If you say “food weights must be within 3% of what’s on the packaging”, then they’ll be 3% below.
How about “within 3%, and with an average no lower than the printed weight”? That seems it would work for a lot of different levels of precision on the part of the company.
That’s the correct solution for food weights, but this is sort of beyond philh’s point, which is just that those you govern will adapt their behavior to the rules you put in place.
>If you say “food weights must be within 3% of what’s on the packaging”, then they’ll be 3% below.
How about “within 3%, and with an average no lower than the printed weight”? That seems it would work for a lot of different levels of precision on the part of the company.
That’s the correct solution for food weights, but this is sort of beyond philh’s point, which is just that those you govern will adapt their behavior to the rules you put in place.
That may be enough: https://xkcd.com/810/