Abstract
A log-log plot of experimental data has the wonderful property of displaying, more often than not, a portion of a straight line. However, there is a widely spread tendency to look for simple, ideal situations; one often interprets a straight line as a scaling law reflecting an important information. We want to stress, on a curious example, how deeply misleading this quest for simple interpretation can be.
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Graner, F. (1997). Scale Invariance Without Mechanism ?. In: Dubrulle, B., Graner, F., Sornette, D. (eds) Scale Invariance and Beyond. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09799-1_1
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