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No caption explained what the numbers meant so the mysterious papyrus
was stored in a secured place and excavation continued. A while later, a second
papyrus was revealed, with a second list of numbers (of same size as before; refer
to Table 23.2b).
However, this time the caption gave exact details of the nature of these
numbers and when these numbers were collected. It read: “Temperatures measured
at this site for 20 days in the year 150 BC”. Researchers were delighted and they
had no doubt that this was an authentic document; however they were still at
loss explaining the numbers in the first document, even after consulting the best
available statisticians of the time. Several months later, a young archeologist from
the expedition came up with a brilliant idea: Perhaps the numbers in the first
document are measurements of same temperatures as specified in the second
document. After some scholarly arguments and mutual persuasions, the team
decided to test this hypothesis statistically.
How could the new hypothesis be tested?
Figure 23.1 plots the two sets.
Figure 23.1. Temperature measurements in F° (T2) as function of C° (T1)
