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If ... We Choose A Group Of Social Phenomena With No Antecedent Knowledge Of The Causation Or Absence Of Causation Among Them, Then The Calculation Of Correlation Coefficients, Total Or Partial, Will Not Advance Us A Step Toward Evaluating The Importance Of The Causes At Work.

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.

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.

More Attention To The History Of Science Is Needed, As Much By Scientists As By Historians, And Especially By Biologists, And This Should Mean A Deliberate Attempt To Understand The Thoughts Of The Great Masters Of The Past, To See In What Circumstances Or Intellectual Milieu Their Ideas Were Formed, Where They Took The Wrong Turning Or Stopped Short On The Right Track.

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?