  Experimental results and high-level quantum chemical ab initio calculations
of the static polarizability $\alpha_0=\alpha(\omega=0)$ of the cadmium
${^1S_0}$ state are still in marked disagreement. Here we analyze this
discrepancy by using experimentally determined dipole oscillator strength
distributions (DOSD). It will be shown that within this procedure the
experimentally determined static polarizability $\alpha_0$ will shift from
$49.7 \pm 1.6~$au to considerably lower values. We now conclude an
experimentally determined polarizability of $\alpha_0=47.5 \pm 2.0~$au in much
better agreement with the latest calculations of $\alpha_0 \approx 46~$au.
