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Based on the testimonies of the philosopher Sir Karl Popper and the physics Nobel laureate Richard P. Feynman it is stated that there are no scientifically relevant data values without uncertainty. For five seemingly exact data values it is shown that they are uncertain after all. The necessity of uncertainties as intrinsic attributes of data values to provide confidence levels for these data values is accentuated.

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Drosg, M. (2009). Introduction. In: Dealing with Uncertainties. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01384-3_1

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