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Originally posted by Theo:
The argument is not a single data point but taking multiple samples and selecting the one that agrees with your apriori assigned value and discarding the rest.
How does this even qualify as a response?
My post reads:
"They make multiple runs because nuclear decay is a random process hence you must take multiple pieces of data find sample population mean and sigma use derived values to iteratively remove statistical fliers then calculate true population mean and sigma which gives you a date and an error measurement...
I`d be more suspicious of someone that took a single data point as the answer than someone who took a wide range of results processed them in the fashion above and arrived at a statisticaly valid result with confidence limits....
This is why they take multiple samples not as you seem to believe in order to falaciously present a contrived result....."
It explains why it is necessary to take multiple samples....
It states a possible mechanism for statistically determining which results are valid parts of the distribution and which are fliers...
And yet your response is equivalent to "They take multiple samples and only publish the single one that fits their expectations"....
Theo for your own good follow the following steps before posting anything else on this subject....
1)Learn to read...
2)Go and take a course in statistics...
Because that last post only succeeded in making you look like a complete and utter muppet.....