Sunday, August 5, 2012

Lies, Damned Lies, and Quantum Statistics

Lies, Damned Lies, and Quantum Statistics?
Posted on August 4, 2012 by Henning Dekant

Statistics has a bad reputation, and has had for a long time, as demonstrated by Mark Twain's famous quote that I paraphrased to use as the title of this blog post.

Of course physics is supposed to be above the fudging of statistical numbers to make a point. Well, on second thought, theoretical physics should be above fudging (in the experimental branch, things are not so clear cut).

Statistical physics is strictly about empl

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/Sq2uVlGoBkg/lies-damned-lies-and-quantum-statistics

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