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Banks, Damjanovic and Vernon1 suggest that the observed compensation effect in the rates of some biological processes might be wholly artefactual. Their argument is one which would also apply to systems of purely chemical interest and raises the question of whether, in the inevitable presence of experimental errors, a true compensation effect is ever observable.
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Banks, B. E. C., Damjanovic, V., and Vernon, C. A., Nature, 240, 147 (1972).
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HARRIS, P. Compensation Effect and Experimental Error. Nature 243, 401–402 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/243401b0
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