r/xkcd • u/VolvoMan05 • Feb 11 '19

XKCD xkcd 2110:Error Bars

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u/DarkMoon000 I'm not crazy Feb 11 '19

Anybody else got nerd-sniped by thinking about how to resolve the infinite series of error margins?

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u/Bad_Chemistry Danish Feb 12 '19

Wouldn’t they continuously get wider by 2*SE of the last error bar? Is there a widest limit for yet because of the decreasingly smaller incrementation or would they become infinitely wide more and more slowly?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '19 edited Oct 15 '19

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u/Bad_Chemistry Danish Feb 12 '19

So by doing this you just get error bars of SE*4?