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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

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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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Gertrude Mary Cox

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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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