You Are Taking a Hot Bath, and You Can Just

You are taking a hot bath, and you can just detect the difference between a water temperature of 100 and 102 degrees. This would indicate, according to the German physiologist E. H. Weber, that __________.

A) we are sensitive to changes on the order of 2 degrees
B) we are sensitive to proportional differences, in this instance, of 2%
C) we are geared to notice absolute differences, not percentage differences
D) our response criteria are not unreasonably high

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