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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-04-20 under

"To consult a statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post-mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of." -- R.A. Fisher, 1938 (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] tdj, who in turn got it from [livejournal.com profile] bluerosesgirl)

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posted by [identity profile] scruffycritter.livejournal.com at 10:43am on 2007-04-20
A statistician is a mathmetician who has been broken down by age and sex.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 10:48pm on 2007-04-20
Ouch.

*golf claps*
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posted by [identity profile] dptwisted.livejournal.com at 11:35pm on 2007-04-20
Huh. I thought the statistician was there to make the experiment say what you wanted it to say.
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