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> we spotted one single outlier number, an impossibly high voltage generated by his system Surely the outlier could have been an innocent digital capture error

• epolanski 3y ago
  You're supposed to publish results that can be reproduced as you describe. And it wasn't an outlier. The simplest comparison I can make to illustrate the point without boring you is measuring the power of a car engine. Imagine that you get a very high torque number, but horsepower doesn't match. Issue is: torque and horsepower are linearly dependent torque = HP * RMP / 5252 Measurements that linerarly correlated with the voltage published were all consistent with a number 10/15% lower.
  • chrisjj 3y ago
    > You're supposed to publish results that can be reproduced as you describe. You are supposed to try. Whether you succeed is necessarily subject to any measurement issues. > And it wasn't an outlier. You said it was.