From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   J. J. Lodder  schrieb:   
      
   > Naval chronometers could have sudden jumps   
   > in their going rates for various reasons.   
   > Take one, and you hope for the best.   
   > Take two and you go crazy when they start to diverge.   
   > (which one is right, so where am I ????)   
   > Take three and you can hope to identify the faulty one.   
      
   "To measure once leads to knowledge.  To measure twice leads to   
   doubt. To measure three times leads to statistics."   
      
   (An unattributed Internet quote which seems to be a generalization   
   of what you wrote).   
      
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