“It’s something I see all the time when my students do experiments,” Yukawa said. “They usually know what the result of the experiment is supposed to be. Because of that, they conduct the experiment specifically to produce the desired result. They do things like deliberately misreading the numeric display on the measuring apparatus, either on the high or the low side. They’re happy to end up with a result close to what they wanted and they don’t even realize that they’re guilty of committing a very basic error. If you want to conduct an experiment properly, you’re much better off not knowing
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