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Old 25-09-2011, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by sjastro View Post
The researchers now have an issue that is not only the bane of experimental science but also crops up in other areas such as industry.

The test is repeatable but is it reproducible?.

Having participated in reproducibility testing along with other laboratories around the world, a problem the researchers have is that the number of laboratories that are currently able to perform this test is woefully small.
For a reproducibility test to be statistically valid, the number of laboratories participating has to be quite high.
Here we go again … the Principle of Locality vs Counterfactual Definiteness !

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PS: Meaning .. are the results at Gran Sasso influenced directly by their immediate surroundings … or can we speak meaningfully of the definiteness of their results … which no one else might ever be able to replicate ?
… Just kidding around.
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Last edited by CraigS; 25-09-2011 at 02:54 PM. Reason: Added 'PS"
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