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Repeated measurements of an experiment is one way of improving the result - or at least of improving the reliability of the result. Experimental error is a real thing. The reliability of an answer will go up as the square root of the measurements.

Sources of error are assumed to be non-systemic. That is , they are not an inevitable part of the measurement. For example, if your reference masses are in error, then all weighings using that reference mass will be in error.

Another method of gaining greater reliability in the result, is to have the measurement made by different experimental methods, and using different experimenters.

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