No Isolated Experiment, However Significant In Itself, Can Suffice For The Experimental Demonstration Of Any Natural Phenomenon; For The "one Chance In A Million" Will Undoubtedly Occur, With No Less And No More Than Its Appropriate Frequency, However Surprised We May Be That It Should Occur To Us.

-Ronald Fisher

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No Isolated Experiment, However Significant In Itself,

Ronald Fisher

No Isolated Experiment, However Significant In Itself, Can Suffice For The Experimental Demonstration Of Any Natural Phenomenon; For The "one Chance In A Million" Will Undoubtedly Occur, With No Less And No More Than Its Appropriate Frequency, However Surprised We May Be That It Should Occur To Us.

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If ... We Choose A Group Of Social Phenomena With No Antecedent Knowledge Of The Causation Or Absence Of Causation Among Them, Then The Calculation Of Correlation Coefficients, Total Or Partial, Will Not Advance Us A Step Toward Evaluating The Importance Of The Causes At Work.

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