An experiment repeated 5 times is more reliable than an experimment repeated 20 times

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Cedric

Mathematics

15 February, 20:43

An experiment repeated 5 times is more reliable than an experimment repeated 20 times

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The given statement is false

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Given that an experiment repeated 5 times is more reliable than an experiment repeated 20 times.

The statement is false.

Any result found by way of experiment will be more reliable if more number of trials are done.

For example, consider toss of a coin. If we try for 2 times, we may get prob for head as 0 sometimes 1/2 or sometimes 1. This is because 2 is very short number of trials to decide. But when you increase to 10, you may get more reliable. SO if number of repititions increase, the more reliable the results would be.