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How can you decide whether a measurement is inaccurate and should be discarded?
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∙ 7y ago
You can not just throw away data. All measurements will be subject to variation and using statistical techniques one should be able to place an error bar over measurements when plotting the data.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 13y agoYou can't make that decision for one individual measurement. You have to measure the same
thing several times, look for the number that most of the results are grouped around, and
discard the ones that are way outside the group. The art of deciding which ones are inside
the group and which ones are outside is an important topic in the study of any science.
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