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Ronald Fisher

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To consult the 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.


— Ronald Fisher


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In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.


— Ronald Fisher


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Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.


— Ronald Fisher


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Natural selection is not evolution.


— Ronald Fisher


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The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.


— Ronald Fisher


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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


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This began a period of great productivity. With her sister's help he set up a subsistence farming operation on the Bradfield estate where they had a large garden and raised animals learning to make do on very little. The marginal notes became the food for a correspondence running at least three years.

FiRonald Fisherr is known as one of the chief architects of the neo-Darwinian synthesis and for his contributions to statistics by creating ANOVA (analysis of variance) FiRonald Fisherr's exact test and FiRonald Fisherr's equation among other things. Sir Ronald Aylmer FiRonald Fisherr FRS (17 February 1890 – 29 July 1962) was an English statistician evolutionary biologist geneticist and eugenicist.

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