Faith Does Not Mean Credulity...

No Practical Biologist Interested In Sexual Reproduction Would Be Led To Work Out The Detailed Consequences Experienced By Organisms Having Three Or More Sexes; Yet What Else Should He Do If He Wishes To Understand Why The Sexes Are, In Fact, Always Two?

The Academic Mind, As We Know, Is Sometimes Capable Of Assuming An Aggressive Attitude. The Official Mind, On The Contrary, Is And Has To Be, Expert In The Art Of Self-defence.

[coining The Phrase "test Of Significance"] Critical Tests Of This Kind May Be Called Tests Of Significance, And When Such Tests Are Available We May Discover Whether A Second Sample Is Or Is Not Significantly Different From The First.

The Million, Million, Million ... To One Chance Happens Once In A Million, Million, Million ... Times No Matter How Surprised We May Be That It Results In Us.

If One In Twenty Does Not Seem High Enough Odds, We May, If We Prefer It, Draw The Line At One In Fifty (the 2 Per Cent. Point), Or One In A Hundred (the 1 Per Cent. Point). Personally, The Writer Prefers To Set A Low Standard Of Significance At The 5 Per Cent. Point, And Ignore Entirely All Results Which Fail To Reach This Level. A Scientific Fact Should Be Regarded As Experimentally Established Only If A Properly Designed Experiment Rarely Fails To Give This Level Of Significance.