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Reproducibility To reproduce an observation, you need to know all of the important circumstances of the observation. For example, consider the observation that the sun rises in the East and sets in the West every 24 hours Someone who repeats that observation in Murmansk, Russia, during midsummer will see the Sun circle the sky without ever completely setting at all. An important detail has been omitted: The observation must be made "in this part of the world in modern terms, informed by several thousand years of science, we would say that the observation must be made at latitudes less than 66 56 degrees north of the equator Murmansk is at almost 69 degrees north latitude and is the largest city within the Arctic Circle Notice that an observation that is lacking some important detail can seem to be reproducible if it has only been tested under a limited set of conditions. A primitive society with no experience of conditionsn the far north (or far south) of the Earth would naturally assume that everyone sees the sun move across the sky in the same way that they do. the measurement than

Answer 1

1. Which of the following statements is the most likely to be reproducible observation?

Since sun rise time depends on date and place of observation so correct option is (c)I saw the sun set at 4:55 pm on December in Richmond VA

2. The daily rising and setting of the sun happens

Correct option is (D) only south of the arctic circle and north of the antarctic circle