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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.

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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.