"Except confusion, maybe," Arandlina said. "She looks confused a lot. Maybe she just needs to get adjusted to being here. After all, she's never seen an elf before." Everyone else nodded in agreement.
Olson estimated 1.4 million fewer taxpayers claimed those breaks in 2006 than 2005, and says there was no explanation for the falloff except for confusion caused by the delay.
That should allow for the inclusion of outlandish readings without distorting the result. (Except where there seems to be straightforward confusion between Celsius and Fahrenheit, which is corrected.) By avoiding traditional procedures that require long, continuous data segments, the Berkeley Earth methodology can also accommodate unusually short sequences: for example, those provided by temporary weather stations.