Significant population differences were tested for in the second part to establish the probability of variations being due to systematic effects or to chance.
Others proposed that systematic effects could explain the redshift-distance correlation.
The reason for blocking is to isolate a systematic effect and prevent it from obscuring the main effects.
One would be bad luck but two suggests a systematic effect.
It also has the advantage of reducing many systematic effects present in atomic clocks.
When measuring over a tilted surface, the systematic effect accumulates.
At this point, systematic effects related to the high velocities of the neutrons in the beam became insurmountable.
This could lead to systematic effects over long distances.
But our results argue against any systematic adverse effect of human insulin.
At this level of precision systematic effects have to be carefully taken into account to determine the precise location of the telescopes on Earth.