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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (835882)

2/11/2015 2:16:14 PM

From: Brumar89

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That's not an answer to:

If the raw data is bad, how can anyone possibly know how to correct it?

Unless you think the teach manipulating data to shape it to a desired target in universities now. I guess that's possible.

You say the raw data is no good, but that means you can't make it good by any legitimate statistical means. All you can do is manipulate to make it look like what you want it to look like and that's exactly what is happening and what you're defending.

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (835882)	2/12/2015 12:54:35 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574616

>> Three, I repeat: 3 stations. How do you know? How do you know it is 3 and not 30 or 300 or 3000? We know there are people who are motivated to misstate the truth. What measures are in place to insure the proper calibration of equipment? What controls have been established to insure there are no intentional misstatements? What measures are taken to insure against systematic measurement failures? How can the consistency of measurements taken over extended periods of time be guaranteed (after all, we're making claims based on 100ths of degrees, with tiny margins of error, and where the technology, like most technologies may evolve over time and in some locations). Are the standards rigorous and fail-safe, and are audits conducted to insure compliance? Just wondering about all this, since you seem to be the font of knowledge...