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...Here is the one that I think is gfermane: Experimental Unit: The smallest division of the experimental material that can receive separate treatments. There is a brief but (imo) pertinent discussion of what this means in the context of food science here: http://ift.confex.com/ift/2005/techprogram/paper_27139.htm The importance of this idea -- never, insofar as I can tell, discussed in statistics texts -- is that it is the unit over which replication must occur for statistical calculations to provide scientifically meaningful estimates of experimental variability. Confusion or ignorance of the experim...