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Too often, in many fields of science, the statistician is regarded as someone who comes on stage after data have been collected, performs standard calculations, delivers a verdict "Significant" or "Not Significant", and then departs.

D. J. Finney

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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D. J. Finney

D. J. Finney

Born: January 3, 1917
Died: November 12, 2018 (aged 101)
Bio: David John Finney was a British statistician and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh.

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