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On 2017/Jul/06, at 14:34, brian whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
On 07/06/2017 04:02 AM, Peter Schoch wrote:
3. I do expect them to then compare their average ± the standard errorNot sure where I got this from, many years ago; possibly a chemistry tutor: when you have no idea how many samples would constitute a reasonable number, take at least 18 samples :-)
to an accepted value (if possible) or to analyze the results; i.e., what if
the error is artificially low? What could have caused that? Is the sample
size unreasonably small?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Brian W.