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by ben_w 1528 days ago
As I understand it, the mean of those values is seven standard deviations away from the theoretical value, and you should only expect a result that extreme to occur by chance roughly once per 3.9e11 reruns of the entire experiment.

But I would caution that precision is so important to both physics and statistics that what I think I understand may be quite different from what’s actually going on.