- it doesn’t work in the twentieth.” To do that you have to be as sure as possible which is the 20th—your real error must be small."

- Gosset ('Student') in 1937 in a letter to Egon (who was by then the editor of Biometrika and also the chair of UCL's Stats Dept)

- on a single set of data] are almost valueless . . . . You want to be able to say not only “We have significant evidence that if farmers in general do this they will make money by it,” but also “we have found it so in nineteen cases out of twenty and we are finding out why -

"Obviously the important thing . . . is to have a low real error, not to have a
[statistically] “significant” result at a particular station. The latter seems to me to be nearly valueless in itself.... Experiments at a single station [that is, tests of statistical significance -

Retrospectives: Guinnessometrics: The Economic Foundation of "Student's" t (Fall 2008) - In economics and other sciences, "statistical significance" is by custom, habit, and education a necessary and sufficient condition for proving an empirical result. The canonical routine...

A very interesting read on how the head brewer at Guinness figured out the t-test of significance among other contributions to statistics, and his Bayesian approach to level of significance.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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