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>330 posts. gg.
So what's up? Exams start yet, Boris?
Today I learned that an experimenter's own mind is his worst enemy. I had to do a lot of manual data fits today, but the catch is that I knew exactly what the outcome should be. As a result I had the hardest time not doing the fit such that the result is near perfectly what I want.
In the end my data is way too good for what you'd expect in this experiment, so I'm hoping I can get away with it.
In case anyone is interested, I was measuring the Planck constant using the photoelectric effect. Normally about 1-2% deviation from the literature value is expected, but I got 0.1%, which is a statistically insignificant deviation given the uncertainty.