Attention Quote by Ronald Fisher

[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

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

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

The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.

— Ronald Fisher

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

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

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

... 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

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

— Ronald Fisher

Natural selection is not evolution.

— Ronald Fisher

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

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