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To: ApplegateRanch

If you try to measure and do it really poorly, if you do it enough times, the random walk of the errors tends to average out and the average is still a decent data point.

The more errors you have will cause a wider dispersion of the data and the standard deviation will be larger.

However, as you well know, with more data points, the standard deviation narrows.

A narrowing standard deviation means higher confidence levels and greater precision of the average.


68 posted on 09/16/2013 12:02:03 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: staytrue

Key word there is “random”.


71 posted on 09/16/2013 3:23:14 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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