Quote by Jordan Ellenberg

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

— Fischer Black

Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected, which are…

— Edmund Pellegrino

... the actual and physical conduct of an experiment must govern the statistical procedure of its interpretation.

— Ronald Fisher

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

— Pascual Jordan

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Significance unfortunately is a useful means toward a personal ends in the advance of science - status and widely distributed publications, a big laboratory,…

— Stephen Thomas Ziliak

“But the significance test that scientists use doesn’t measure importance.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.

— Anatol Rapoport

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things.

— Nate Silver

“The statistical method shows the facts in the light of the ideal average but does not give us a picture of their empirical reality.…

— C.G. Jung

“It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are…

— Arthur Conan Doyle