Hal Murray wrote:
[email protected] said:
It is not impossible that for a sample of 100,000 secondary
standards, that the errors would be all be off in the same direction,
compared to the standard's value.
Now, granted, this would be a small probability indeed. But it is
possible to toss a coin fifty times and have fifty "heads". The smart
bet is that it won't.
You need to consider systematic errors.
50 heads is simple if you are using a 2 headed coin. Yes, that's an extreme
example.
Consider lead-head and aluminium-back-sided coins. Systematic bias.
Consider that the same coin is used for many tosses, the lead would wear
off over time, so you have an aging mechanism which shifts the statistics.
But consider 100,000 pendulums that are all right-on and then the temperature
changes.
Temperature gradients always occur from one end of the cave?
Cheers,
Magnus
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