To Consult The Statistician After An Experiment

However, Perhaps The Main Point Is That You Are Under No Obligation To Analyse Variance Into Its Parts If It Does Not Come Apart Easily, And Its Unwillingness To Do So Naturally Indicates That One's Line Of Approach Is Not Very Fruitful.

The Best Time To Plan An Experiment Is After You've Done It.

The Best Causes Tend To Attract To Their Support The Worst Arguments, Which Seems To Be Equally True In The Intellectual And In The Moral Sense.

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.