Open Mind

The Power of Large Numbers

July 5, 2007 · 26 Comments

A commenter (”Citizen”) on another post opines that because thermometers are imprecise, and not continually calibrated, it’s not possible to discern temperature changes precisely enough to support the temperature increase claimed by climate researchers. In fact, he (she?) states:

Do you think that continually averaging imprecise information makes that information more precise? Don’t you think that’s a stretch? It’s not rational you know.

It’s certainly not intuitive. But in fact it is true.

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Categories: Global Warming · astronomy · climate change