STAT 150 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: William Sealy Gosset, Jerzy Neyman, Biometrika
1 Oct 2016
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Lady at a tea party suggests that the tea tastes different depending upon whether milk was poured into tea, or if tea was poured into milk. They test the lady"s claims by serving her tea with variation of if the tea was put in the milk or if milk was put in tea and noting her assessment. The author states that in his experience, little in science can be accomplished unless there is cognitive cooperation. One of the men at the tea party stated that the experiment had a problem in design because the lady had a 50% chance of guessing correct. This man fisher published in a book that different measures should have been carried out to increase the probability of getting a true reading rather than leaving it to the law of averages. For a long while, experimentation was uncommon, and publication of scientific findings was seldom found.
