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Are your temps all over the place? cause mine are?! none of them are even close to each other am i doing something wrong? 97.58 97.71 97.41 97.51 97.25 97.61!

2006-11-23 02:46:14 · 1 answers · asked by cutenwild1769 5 in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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The degree of accuracy you think you have i.e. two decimal places is beyond the accuracy needed for the human body.

At best, one decimal place is the most you can reasonably use. This would turn your temperature readings into the following (after following proper rounding techniques).
97.6
97.8
97.4
97.5
97.3
97.7

Proper statistical techniques would suggest that you drop the highest and lowest reading.
97.6
97.4
97.5
97.7

As you can see the average is 97.5 and the variation is no more than 0.2 degrees.

Any doctor would tell you that this degree of variance is negligible and would then tell you that for all practical purposes you body temp is constant.

You should be more concerned as to why it is below normal. Normal is considered to be 98.6 degrees. This varies at most by 0.2 degrees. Why yours is one whole degree lower is something I would ask a doctor.

2006-11-23 03:07:14 · answer #1 · answered by Carl 3 · 0 0

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