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David Salsburg, "The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century"
English | 2001 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0805071342, 0716741067 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a lady states that tea poured into milk tastes differently than that of milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the scientific minds of the group. But one guest, by the name Ronald Aylmer Fisher, proposes to scientifically test the lady's hypothesis. There was no better person to conduct such a test. For Fisher had brought to the field of statistics an emphasis on controlling the methods for obtaining data and the importance of interpretation. He knew that how the data was gathered and applied was as important as the data themselves.