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Fall
1995
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Date
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Presenter(s)
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Title
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08Nov95
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Dr.
Marshall Thomsen
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Data Analysis
and Self-Deception
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Description
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We
often take more data in a laboratory experiment than we formally report.
In some cases, data is excluded from analysis due to obviously malfunctioning
equipment. At the other extreme, some data is excluded based on a
gut feeling that it just does not fit. This talk will examine the
issue of when to report data and when to exclude it, with references to
well known incidents in the history of physics.
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