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		anitil on Jan 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Royal Society cautions against censorship of scien... The oil drop experiment was a nice example of this same phenomenon - a slow correction over time - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment I remember seeing a plot of the values over time, but my google-fu is failing me.

function_seven on Jan 31, 2022 [–]

I found this article that has a whisker plot.

https://alexholcombe.medium.com/confirmation-bias-in-science...

It that the one you remember?

anitil on Jan 31, 2022 | [–]

Thanks! It must be that one

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