On Oct 28, 12:51*pm, "Cat_in_awe" wrote:
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And there is zero justification for reporting those temperatures to two
decimal places. *When the raw data is accurate to a degree, (or possibly 0.5
degree), reporting in the hundredths is falsifying the accuracy of the data.
I think you need to take an introductory lesson in statistics.

An introductory course in statistics would teach you
how to calculate the "Standard error of the mean."
The inverse of the square root of the number of samples
is a small fraction when there are thousands of samples.
Please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_error_(statistics)