[Jdm-society] Experimenter bias

[Jonathan Baron]

See Henrion and Fischoff (1986).  "Assessing uncertainty in physical
constants."  American Journal of Physics, 54, 791-798.

This is also reviewed in ch. 6 of "Uncertainty" by M. G. Morgan and
M. Henrion (1990) (which is actually what I read).

Seems it takes a while to get these right!

Jon

On 05/08/07 08:57, McNamara, Laura A wrote:
> Laura,
> 
> I hope all is going well with you.
> 
> I have been thinking about a topic that I believe is right up your
> alley, and am wondering whether you can point me in a useful direction.
> 
> I have been looking at the historical record of measurements of
> fundamental quantities in physics. I believe there is evidence to
> support the notion that experimenters may be influenced, perhaps
> subconsciously, by previously published results.
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