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Having been an instrument designer/builder in a former life, I often wanted...
to communicate the resolution of the instrument. It wouldn't do much good
to report the standard error of the mean in this case because I could make
it arbitrarily small by taking sufficient data points.
I think whether one reports standard error of the mean or sample standard
deviation depends upon what one is trying to communicate.