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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2282582, member: 76181&quot;]Not sure what is meant by museum people (sounds conspiratorial) but once again, I don&#039;t believe there is a need to destroy millions of coins to get a statistically relevant set of data. I don&#039;t know why you shut down this line of thinking so quickly. Yes, 50 people do not represent 300 million Americans. I know that without looking at the study. Intuitively I can see that it will not give an acceptable p-value. Do you understand p-values? Not an attack, just a question, because I still don&#039;t understand your blanket claim that millions of coins need to be tested.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, you confuse basic research with applied research. If one were to study a statistically relevant set of data, this would contribute to the corpus of basic research. How that gets applied can be left to further scrutiny, but it does not negate the value of the basic data that comes out of the research.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t speak to the validity of the core testing methods used in the originally cited study. However, it would not take a very large sample to test the validity of the method. Several hundred coins of any condition could be first drill tested. and then ground down and tested to see how the results match. Simple way to affirm or condemn the method.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for those crying about destroying a bunch of $20 denarii.............science involves sacrifice and we are not talking about destroying Temples in Palmyra.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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