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[QUOTE="person123, post: 6443229, member: 611120"] My question then becomes: can we prevent situations like the case of particle data through time, where (at least how I understand it) researchers consistently got similar erroneous results due to using previous research as their prior while using Baye's theorem effectively? Or does using our priors necessarily lead to these issues of bias? (Also, I know almost nothing about particle physics, but would it be possible that there were systematic errors due to measurements at the time which caused the shift? Like is it possible that in the 70s and 80s the techniques used consistently overestimated the mass?) [/QUOTE]
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