To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.

  • -- Ronald Fisher 费希尔

在实验结束后打电话给统计学家,可能仅仅是让他做一个尸检:他或许能够说出实验的死因。

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Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

人类在这个星球上的大多数问题,在人类漫长的历史长河中,都是通过基于常识和勇气的实验,部分地或整体地解决了。

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

统计学家的定义:一个人相信数据不会说谎,但他承认,在分析中,有些数据也站不住脚。

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

我们不关心非常贫困的人。它们是不可想象的,只有统计学家或诗人才能接近它们。

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

我从事科学实验的第一个领域是经济学和心理学。