"For every problem there is always a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong." -- Mark Twain I'm not an expert, but I know several people who are. Appa

"For every problem there is always a solution that is simple, obvious, and wrong." -- Mark Twain I'm not an expert, but I know several people who are. Apparently the literature explains clearly why this most obvious of fixes is, as Twain predicts, wrong. The simple jitter that you can add is dealt with by statistical techniques. As I say, I'm not an expert, but if you google this it should give you references to papers that discuss the issues.