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	1 Introduction
	2 Errors and spectroscopic measurements
	3 Reliability of physical properties derived from spectroscopic data
	4 Age-metallicity degeneracy: A case study
	5 Conclusions
	References
	Online Material
	Appendix A: Estimating random errors in the D4000
	Appendix B: Estimating random errors in colors
	Appendix C: Measuring age and metallicity from index-index diagrams

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