[HL33tibCe7]

You’re severely overestimating the mental capacity of a large section of the population.

In fact, almost the entire population after little sleep or on a bad day is likely to make mistakes while following your proposed scheme.

[uniqueuid]

Sure, most of us stay in system 1 (heuristic) most of the time.

But I think it's wrong to assume most people are incapable of serious, thorough thinking. Parents around the world correctly dose medication for their kids all the time, and they mostly do this completely fine.

The key is that people are clever when they both can and want to, and some communication regarding drugs is not well-designed to alert them to want at the right time.

[HL33tibCe7]

> But I think it's wrong to assume most people are incapable of serious, thorough thinking

I never said otherwise. I said that many are incapable, not most

[xyzzy_plugh]

Furthermore it's incredibly convenient to mentally cache volumes like "10mL for this one, 24mL for that one" for ~6-12 months at a time.

[rayiner]

https://www.awrestaurants.com/press/press-release/101921-aw-... ("In the 1980s, A&W tried to compete with the immensely popular McDonald’s Quarter Pounder by offering a bigger, juicier ⅓ Pound Burger at the same price. Unfortunately, Americans aren’t so great at math. Confused consumers wrongly assumed that ¼ was bigger than ⅓ (You know, because 4 is bigger than 3) and the whole experiment went down in history as a huge marketing fail.").