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The effects of the experiment itself on the obtained results and, especially, the influence of a large number of experiments is extensively discussed in the literature. We show that the important factor that stands as the basis of these effects is that the involved experiments are related and not independent and detached from each other. This relationship takes, as shown here, different forms for different situations and is found in entirely different physical regimes such as the quantum and classical ones.
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Bar, D. The Effects of Related Experiments. Int J Theor Phys 44, 1095–1116 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-005-4048-8
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