Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
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. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
[Coining the phrase "test of significance"] Critical tests of this kind may be called tests of significance, and when such tests are available we… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
We can set no limit to human potentialities; all that is best in man can be bettered; it is not a question of producing… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
... no scientific worker has a fixed level of significance at which from year to year, and in all circumstances, he rejects hypotheses; he… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share
