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Re: [Phys-L] liars + visualization + Sports Illustrated


On 2015, Dec 27, , at 21:56, John Denker <jsd@av8n.com> wrote:


Real data has fluctuations. It’s the nature of the beast. If you’ve
only got two or three data points, a large amount of noise can be
fatal ... but if you’ve got hundreds or thousands of data points,
you can tolerate quite a bit of noise, and still reach valid
conclusions, if you analyze things properly.


I often told the advanced lab students: take data into the noise. (turn up the gain, etc.)

bc thinks phase sensitive detection is like gathering more data points.