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Maybe it’s been answered though I didn’t see it addressed, but couldn’t the noise issue simply be some sort of copy paste error in excel?

• williamscales 8y ago
  In principal it could, and this is why Brian Skinner wrote his note in the way he did, simply pointing out the facts. It is odd, however, that the two data series in question match at lower temperatures but not higher temperatures. It would be odd to be manipulating one portion of a series of data like that.
• mabbo 8y ago
  When you announce room temperature superconductors, you sure as heck better have found and fixed every single error, including dumb ones like excel copy/paste errors. You touch that topic like you touch cold fusion. And besides, if it was something as simple as that then all they need to do is release their data. They haven't.
  • scythe 8y ago
    It's an arXiv preprint. If it were submitted to a journal I'd agree with you, but the fast sharing of new data is the whole point of arXiv.
• giarc 8y ago
  Copy and paste would produce the same numbers, and therefore the same pattern. As mentioned, the figures aren't the same at higher temperatures, as well Excel wouldn't copy, paste, add 1 unit which would produce the offset.