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[coining The Phrase "test Of Significance"] Critical Tests Of This Kind May Be Called Tests Of Significance, And When Such Tests Are Available We May Discover Whether A Second Sample Is Or Is Not Significantly Different From The First.

I Believe Sanity And Realism Can Be Restored To The Teaching Of Mathematical Statistics Most Easily And Directly By Entrusting Such Teaching Largely To Men And Women Who Have Had Personal Experience Of Research In The Natural Sciences.

Professor Eddington Has Recently Remarked That 'the Law That Entropy Always Increases - The Second Law Of Thermodynamics - Holds, I Think, The Supreme Position Among The Laws Of Nature'. It Is Not A Little Instructive That So Similar A Law [the Fundamental Theorem Of Natural Selection] Should Hold The Supreme Position Among The Biological Sciences.

The Analysis Of Variance Is Not A Mathematical Theorem, But Rather A Convenient Method Of Arranging The Arithmetic.

The Statistician Cannot Excuse Himself From The Duty Of Getting His Head Clear On The Principles Of Scientific Inference, But Equally No Other Thinking Man Can Avoid A Like Obligation.