My Taylor digital scale

It has an interesting "feature". Let's say I step on it. It displays a certain weight, let's say 176.2. I step back from it, step on it again, and voila, the weight is always exactly the same. 176.2. Great you say? Very consistent? Not really. I step back, take a 1 lb weight, step on the scale with that weight, but the scale displays the same old 176.2! Now if I take a 5 lb weight and step on it, it would display a new weight. I take 5lb new weight off, step on the scale again without a weight, and NOW it displays a new weight say 176.8.

What does this mean? It means that the scale (digital) is programmed to display not its actual reading, but the previous reading if the weight did not change much in comparison. It is programmed to hide its inconsistency so that the consumers think it is extremely accurate, which it is not.

I would rather have an inconsistent scale than the scale that is essentially lying. But I know how to defeat it and I got used to it. I am a computer programmer, that's why I became interested in this problem.

Perhaps you should take up ballet or step dancing or use a tape measure or half filled bathtub instead.

If it's designed that way, how come *my* Taylor digital scale is always a half-pound lower the first time, then goes up the half pound and (usually) will hold that for repeated readings? What's that all about, then?

The Tanita, by the way, stays consistent but weighs higher at the outset than the "final" Taylor weight.

Buy a new scale?

Yikes. You mean....maybe my scale is deceiving me? The nasty thing. And it looks so innocent just laying there on the floor.

well, maybe *your* taylor scale works differently.

Seems to me it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $65 bucks (in LA, so probably would cost less in other cities). Maybe this isn't expensive to some, but it was to me. I'm glad I shelled out the dough, though. It has been a good scale for me. It also looks nice, with a warm wood finish.

I have a digital scale made by "Thinner". It passed the weight test. I first weighed myself. Then I held a can that was 1.5 lbs. and weighed again. The scale faithfully registered the added weight. Then I went back and weighed again without the can. Scale weighed accurately.

My scale is vindicated. :> It should be...it cost enough!