E19: The Muck Raker's Son-in-Law - R.A. Fisher's Science and Statistics
The Dawdler’s Philosophy

E19: The Muck Raker’s Son-in-Law - R.A. Fisher’s Science and Statistics

2018-12-16
People love to talk about the pitfalls of statistics and how we can "lie" with it. Those people don’t do statistics. In science, statistics is often quite difficult. It's there to help us with very complicated problems, not to hurt others with simple craven power leveragings. The Dawdlers discuss the positive side of this dichotomy through a paper by the mid-to-late 20th Century statistician George E.P. Box. Here, he forays into the big vistas of Science and Statistics with his mantra in hand--"All m...
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