Mohanty and Webb Reply:

Abstract

wires at low tem-peratures. We argued that the observed asymmetry ordeviation from the expected Gaussian shape [2,3], irre-spective of its magnitude, signals a possible violation ofthe one-parameter scaling theory of Anderson localiza-tion [2,3]. Fal’ko, Lerner, Tsyplyatyev, and Aleiner(FLTA) [4] agree that there is a finite asymmetry in thedata, and they argue that the deviation can be explainedby the ‘‘limited applicability of the ergodic hypothesis.’’Furthermore, they claim, there is an orders-of-magnitudedifference in the values of cumulants in their analysis ofthe published curves [1]. In the following, we show thatthey obtain a huge discrepancy because of their use of adifferent definition of the third cumulant.We contend thatboth the nature and the size of the asymmetry in the datacannot be explained by the limitations of the ergodichypothesis.