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65 Post author: ThinkOfTheChildren 08 April 2013 09:29PM

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 09 April 2013 09:22:12PM 4 points [-]

Try neuroskeptic.

If there is no component of luck or guesswork or something that varies from test to test, then the retest will be exactly the same as the original test, but that's not what we see in pretty much any test. or any measurement of anything.