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Jerry R. Ehman Quotes

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Jerry R. Ehman is an American astronomer who first detected the strong narrowband radio signal known as the Wow! signal of August 15, 1977 while working on a SETI project at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University.

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Also known as: Drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data.

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A person not familiar with all of the special knowledge about a particular instrument should not try to draw too many conclusions from printed data. Such data typically contains certain assumptions about the equipment not necessarily known to outsiders.

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