Figure 1 Atmospheric temperature: +40°C (dark red) – -40°C (purple).
NASA/JPL/SPL
Two examples of systematic error in environmental measurement illustrate aspects of experimental design and how science works.
When the results of an experiment do not quite agree with your expectations, you might claim this is due to ‘experimental error’. That is a rather vague phrase, however. What does it mean?
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