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(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday April 13 2017, @02:30PM (1 child)
In many fields it is important to have two data points. Once that second data point is acquired you:
1. draw a straight line through those two data points
2. jump up and down
3. yell "we now understand this phenomena completely!"
4. write a paper
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 16 2017, @08:23PM
That's not how I heard it. At one aircraft company, pre WWII, there were two analysts that made data plots in the flight test department. Some data was extremely hard to get, so that plotter's job was to put a family of curves through one data point (hopefully based on some theory). Other data was readily available but extremely noisy, that plotter had the job of putting a best-fit single line through all the noise.