• Question: What type of data is the most important to be correct in an experiment?

    Asked by anon-177191 to Urslaan on 18 Jun 2018.
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      Urslaan Chohan answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      Every bit of data is important to be accurate, else the inaccuracies join together and get bigger and bigger! This is known as “error propagation”.

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    Dave commented on :

    I would argue that the most important data in an experiment is your controls. These are conditions you add to your experiment to make sure the results you see in your experiment are down to a technicality of the technique you’re using or just a random event! Without a proper controls, you cannot be confident in your data!

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    anon-177191 commented on :

    Thank you for these great answers guys. I will tell all of my classmates.