# Contaminants unevenly removed across the strip biased the dates.

> Disputed: Contaminants unevenly removed across the strip biased the dates.

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# Contaminants unevenly removed across the strip biased the dates.

Contaminants unevenly removed across the strip biased the dates.

**Disputed** Answers **1** questionPublished0

## Where it stands

**Disputed** Two pieces of evidence for, none against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Ages vary monotonically along the sampled strip.

## What would rule it out

- No spatial trend when sample positions are reconstructed.

## Evidence 2 for · none against

[A monotone spatial variation of subsample ages.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/shroud-of-turin/evidence/EVD0CWY2T2C6Q7F/a-monotone-spatial-variation-of-subsample-ages)

Suggestive

FOR

[An approximately linear dependence of dates on sample position.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/shroud-of-turin/evidence/EVD0CWY2TA60MD3/an-approximately-linear-dependence-of-dates-on-sample)

Suggestive

FOR

## The questions it answers

[Is the heterogeneity in the 1988 raw data a sign of a wrong date?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/shroud-of-turin/questions/QST0CWY2HRR1NRJ/is-the-heterogeneity-in-the-1988-raw-data-a-sign-of-a-wrong)

Part of [When was the linen of the Shroud made?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/shroud-of-turin/questions/QST0CWY2H1A0BGE/when-was-the-linen-of-the-shroud-made)

Most likelyThe heterogeneity reflects ordinary laboratory and pretreatment differences and does not change the medieval…

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Mysteries Department. (2026). Contaminants unevenly removed across the strip biased the dates. [Answer ANS0CWY2STJ6ZP7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0CWY2STJ6ZP7
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**ANS** 0CWY2STJ6ZP7

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