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2020
Journal Article
Titel
Drawing the bow for reproducibility
Abstract
When Robin the Hood draws his bow (Fig. 1), one can always be sure that his arrows will hit the target with 100% accuracy and only marginal deviation. But what if the bowman is Little John, would he hit the target equally well? He may pull the bow differently and have a slight, uncorrected astigmatism. Or let's think of Robin using the bow of the Sheriff of Nottingham (don't ask how he got his hands on it); would he still reproduce his initial high performance? How about Little John with the bow of the Sheriff? What if it's not even a bow but a crossbow? So far, I didn't yet even touch the issue of using different arrows handcrafted by different manufacturers or the quality of the interpretation of the results by the referees!