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whenever there is discussion about statistics role in science (sometimes even going as far as crossing into how science is statistics) i always remember this:
by VladRussian2 13y ago
whenever there is discussion about statistics role in science (sometimes even going as far as crossing into how science is statistics) i always remember this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Fraud_allegations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Fraud_alleg...
- evacuationdrill 13y agoMore revealing than the fraud allegations is the next section discussing the way results had pressure from his and other experiments' results for years, delaying our arrival at a more precise measurement. It reads as though it wasn't so much malice as it was self-doubt that lead to the scientists' actions.