Faith Does Not Mean Credulity...

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.

Fairly Large Print Is A Real Antidote To Stiff Reading.

The Statistician Cannot Excuse Himself From The Duty Of Getting His Head Clear On The Principles Of Scientific Inference, But Equally No Other Thinking Man Can Avoid A Like Obligation.

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.