After All, It Is A Common Weakness

Faith Does Not Mean Credulity...

... The Actual And Physical Conduct Of An Experiment Must Govern The Statistical Procedure Of Its Interpretation.

... No Scientific Worker Has A Fixed Level Of Significance At Which From Year To Year, And In All Circumstances, He Rejects Hypotheses; He Rather Gives His Mind To Each Particular Case In The Light Of His Evidence And His Ideas.

No Aphorism Is More Frequently Repeated In Connection With Field Trials, Than That We Must Ask Nature Few Questions, Or, Ideally, One Question, At A Time. The Writer Is Convinced That This View Is Wholly Mistaken. Nature, He Suggests, Will Best Respond To A Logical And Carefully Thought Out Questionnaire; Indeed, If We Ask Her A Single Question, She Will Often Refuse To Answer Until Some Other Topic Has Been Discussed.

To Consult The Statistician After An Experiment Is Finished Is Often Merely To Ask Him To Conduct A Post Mortem Examination. He Can Perhaps Say What The Experiment Died Of.