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Re: [Phys-L] uncertainty on the uncertainty




On 2017/Jul/06, at 03:57, David Bowman <David_Bowman@georgetowncollege.edu> wrote:

This discussion has caused me to be reminded of a quote attributed to Ernst Rutherford:

"If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."

David Bowman
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Really!???

and he’s the person who musta used stats. in verifying his scattering theory w/ gold foil experiments.


bc thinks all current nuclear is very “heavy" w/ stats.