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Polynomials are notoriously untrustworthy when extrapolated.

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A useful property of a test of significance is that it exerts a sobering influence on the type of experimenter who jumps to conclusions on scanty data, and who might otherwise try to make everyone excited about some sensational treatment effect that can well be ascribed to the ordinary variation in his experiment.

Gertrude Mary Cox

Gertrude Mary Cox

Gertrude Mary Cox

Born: January 13, 1900

Died: October 17, 1978 (aged 78)

Bio: Gertrude Mary Cox was an American statistician and founder of the department of Experimental Statistics at North Carolina State University.

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