Mean “deconvolved” filament width for each cloud analyzed by Arzoumanian et al. (2019), as a function of the updated cloud distance (d_new). A colored symbol shows the ensemble average width of filaments within a cloud. The vertical lines span the ±1σ range of the distribution of the filament widths of that cloud. Two points mark the full range of distances to a cloud, when such measurements are available. A dotted line shows the Herschel beam size. The background shows a distribution of the filament widths for each cloud, drawn from a Gaussian distribution with the number of measurements per cloud reported in the original study (see text). We only show a realization for the nearest distance limit of each cloud for clarity.