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Michelson's five runs, 1879
Twenty speed-of-light measurements per run. The boxes show that the runs disagree with each other more than the readings within any one of them.

Source
Svelte, builder, JSON
<script lang="ts">
import {
GeomBoxplot,
GGPlot,
Labs,
ScaleXDiscrete,
ThemeFew,
} from "@ggsvelte/svelte";
import { michelsonRuns } from "./data.js";
</script>
<GGPlot
data={michelsonRuns}
aes={{ x: "run", y: "velocity" }}
width={640}
height={400}
>
<ThemeFew />
<ScaleXDiscrete domain={["Jun 5", "Jun 7", "Jun 9", "Jun 12", "Jul 2"]} />
<Labs
title="Michelson's five runs, 1879"
subtitle="Twenty measurements each — the runs disagree more than the readings within them"
x="Run"
y="Velocity (km/s − 299,000)"
/>
<GeomBoxplot />
</GGPlot>
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