The notion of size can be surprisingly vague. Here’s an example. Is this a big error, or a small error: NEWS.com.au would like to apologise for their error — as we all know, Betelgeuse is the second biggest star in the Orion constellation, not the universe. The quotation is from a news article that says: […]
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Matters of Size
Behold the gentle interplay of measurement, urology, and psychology: “Penile Size and the ‘Small Penis Syndrome’,” Kevan R. Wylie and Ian Eardley, BJU International, vol. 99, no. 6, June 2007, pp. 1449-55. (Thanks to Kristine Danowski for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Porterbrook Clinic, Sheffield Care Trust, Sheffield, U.K., explain: